[SOLVED] Kubuntu 20.04.3, Nvidia GTX 1660. System hangs at motherboard logo on boot.

[brianinnes]

I'm still not having much luck with Kubuntu.

I recently upgraded my hardware to the following.

AMD Ryzen 7 3700x, with 32gb DDR4 ram and an MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI motherboard.

I have retained my Nvidia GTX 1660 GPU.

I have done a complete fresh install, using a new M2 SSD for the root partition and efi partition, and a new 2tb hard drive for my /home partition (I've still to transfer my data across from my old /home partition)

While I managed to get Kubuntu installed, whenever I turn on / reboot the system, it hangs after the motherboard logo. If I then reboot, then select "recovery mode" from the grub menu, the system boots, but without graphical acceleration.

Nvidia drivers are nvidia-driver-470 as installed by the driver manager. I also have the same issue with the Nvidia-460 drivers.

Thoughts? Perhaps Kubuntu 20.04.3 is "too old" for my current hardware?

The kernel I'm running is 5.11.0-38-generic

[GreyGeek]

Your GPU requires an Nvidia 450 or higher driver, so 470 is ok. You might consider changing your kernel version, either higher or lower.

[brianinnes]

Thanks GreyGeek. It could possibly be me needing to use a newer kernel version. Perhaps I'll take another look at Kubuntu once 22.04 gets released next year.

[GreyGeek]

That sounds like a plan

[brianinnes]

One thing I may try though, is Kubuntu 21.10, and see how that works.

[brianinnes]

I managed to successfully get Kubuntu 21.10 installed.

One thing which may have been causing the issue, was I still had connected my old 120gb SSD, which I had a previous distro root partition on. This drive had it's own efi system partition. So perhaps this was what was causing my system to hang, as the although I had told the Kubuntu 20.04 installer to install using the efi partitition on the new 500gb SSD, the system didn't know which efi to boot from?

Anway, I removed the old SSD, and Kubuntu 21.10 installed OK.

[brianinnes]

I managed to successfully get Kubuntu 21.10 installed.

One thing which may have been causing the issue, was I still had connected my old 120gb SSD, which I had a previous distro root partition on. This drive had it's own efi system partition. So perhaps this was what was causing my system to hang, as the although I had told the Kubuntu 20.04 installer to install using the efi partitition on the new 500gb SSD, the system didn't know which efi to boot from?

Anway, I removed the old SSD, and Kubuntu 21.10 installed OK.

However a couple of issues with missing dependencies for some applications on the 21.10 repositories and I'm thinking that I'd be best with 20.04 LTS!

[claydoh]

However a couple of issues with missing dependencies for some applications on the 21.10 repositories and I'm thinking that I'd be best with 20.04 LTS!

Which applications? Which dependencies?

[brianinnes]

Which applications? Which dependencies?

libfdk-aac1 for stremio is one example, however I think 20.04 LTS would be a better fit for my HTPC (as well as my desktop) :-)

[claydoh]

libfdk-aac1 for stremio is one example, however I think 20.04 LTS would be a better fit for my HTPC (as well as my desktop) :-)

True, an HTPC is an ideal use case for an LTS

libfdk-aac1 was replaced by libfdk-aac2
Stremio's package for some reason has not been updated to work with newer Ubuntu releases, probably because they have a flatpak for it, that works on all distros.

And if you want, it is not difficult to remedy this one specific thing:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1295...n-ubuntu-20-10

Stremio has not had a new UI debian package since June 2020, which does explain the lack of support for newer Ubuntu releases.