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16.04 lts -> problems with HP Pavillion dv7 Notebook PC system

Asked by Bob Christian Laryea

Hello there,

I have this old Intel Core 2 Duo CPU P8400 @2.26ghz.
First i have been installing 16.04 64 bit on this system as dual boot with windows 10, which gave me a lot of problems and reinstalling many times.
Now i have discarded windows and made a clean Ubuntu installation. Things have been fine for a little while, but now after wanting to login the home screen is totally blank and i cant do anything, other than ctrl+alt+f1. I have searched on difff. solutions but nothing helps (.Xauthority file)
So i have been wondering if the Ubuntu dist. is too hard on this pc and should go some versions back or there could be some tweaks in order to have the pc behaving in a stable manor??
I wouldn't want to change to another distro or flavors if possible. :-)
I hope someone out there could offer some advise, cause i'm finding it rather difficult to find solutions i can use with succes..

Thanks In advance
Laryea

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If it can run Windows ten it can run Ubuntu. What video chip are you using and how much RAM does the system have?

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Bob Christian Laryea (laryea73) said : 		#2

The system has 4gb ram and video is an Nvidia (NV96)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

If you run:

sudo lshw -C display

What is the output please?

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Bob Christian Laryea (laryea73) said : 		#4

The output is as following:

*-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G96M [GeForce 9600M GT]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       resources: irq:26 memory:d2000000-d2ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:8000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Try:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
sudo reboot

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Bob Christian Laryea (laryea73) said : 		#6

Hi again,
I've done as suggested and so far things seems to be working fine...
Underneath is the new output

*-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G96M [GeForce 9600M GT]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:d2000000-d2ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:8000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

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Bob Christian Laryea (laryea73) said : 		#7

Things are working just fine now.
Thank you for helping me out..

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Bob Christian Laryea (laryea73) said : 		#8

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.