{"id":1335,"date":"2014-07-25T20:12:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T01:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2015-02-22T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T16:59:00","slug":"installing-ubuntu-14-04-on-jennings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Installing Ubuntu 14.04 on Jennings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennings is a new Lenovo K450E. It&#8217;s replacing Boon which is getting flakier every day.<br \/>\nJennings came with Windows 8.1 and UEFI. I tried to install Ubuntu alongside Windows, but failed. It turns out I was doomed from the start because I got Jennings with an NVidia card (GeForce GTX 750) that was so new, the Linux Nouveau drivers don&#8217;t support it yet, nor has nvidia-current been updated with the new NVidia drivers. As a result, when booting with UEFI, it would lock up. The Boot Repair Disk I needed to fix the UEFI issues also locked up. Eventually, I gave up and installed Ubuntu by itself in non-UEFI mode. For some reason, with UEFI turned off, it would load and run fine, except for the video being stuck at a lower resolution than the monitor could handle.<br \/>\nTo fix that, I needed the NVidia binary driver, available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\">http:\/\/www.nvidia.com<\/a>. The instructions are simple, just download and run the installer as root. The only catch? You can&#8217;t have X running when you do so. And because of the confused nouveau driver, I didn&#8217;t have any console TTYs. To get around that, I ssh&#8217;d in from another box on my network. Setting the runlevel to 3 didn&#8217;t shut down X. I had to <code>sudo service lightdm stop<\/code> for that. Once X was out of the picture, the NVidia installer ran and only complained that a distribution pre-install script failed, but that didn&#8217;t affect anything. After letting the installer update my X configuration, I ran <code>sudo service lightdm start<\/code> and was back in business&#8211;no reboot required.<\/p>\n<p>Update: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1366\">console TTY issue has been solved<\/a>, so there&#8217;s no need to log in remotely to do this. The bad news is that these steps must be run after every kernel update:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>sudo service lightdm stop<\/code><br \/>\n<code>sudo sh .\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.24.run<\/code><br \/>\nAccept\/Yes\/Reinstall to everything<br \/>\n<code>sudo service lightdm start<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennings is a new Lenovo K450E. It&#8217;s replacing Boon which is getting flakier every day. Jennings came with Windows 8.1 and UEFI. I tried to install Ubuntu alongside Windows, but failed. It turns out I was doomed from the start because I got Jennings with an NVidia card (GeForce GTX 750) that was so new, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}