Installing Linux Mint 19 on Asus Vivobook Pro

In April this year I purchased this nice notebook.

As soon as it landed on my desk I started Windows 10 and resized the system partition to gain a little space for some serious stuff 🙂 So I gained some 160Gb to play with, not bad

Linux Mint 18.3 installed without problems, very fast and and non memory greedy, useful for daily work (mostly programming stuff in Python/Java)

When LM19 came out I was excited and tried quite a few times to install it but the live system was constantily hanging after a minute or two. I tried helplessy some grub parameters such as ‘nomodeset’ without success, until I found this precious parameter somewhere in the excellent Arch Linux wiki:

nouveau.noaccel=1

Now I’m a happy LM19 user, waiting for the LM Team to enable upgrade in update manager to the brand new LM19.1, that looks even faster and snappier (and supported until 2023)

System: Host: stefano-X580VD Kernel: 4.15.0-42-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine: Device: laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X580VD v: 1.0 serial: N/A
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X580VD v: 1.0 serial: N/A
UEFI: American Megatrends v: X580VD.315 date: 03/08/2018
Battery BAT0: charge: 36.4 Wh 90.1% condition: 40.4/48.1 Wh (84%)
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-7700HQ (-MT-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB
clock speeds: max: 3800 MHz 1: 800 MHz 2: 800 MHz 3: 800 MHz 4: 800 MHz 5: 800 MHz 6: 800 MHz
7: 801 MHz 8: 800 MHz
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Device 591b
Card-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: modesetting,nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: [email protected]
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.77
Audio: Card Intel CM238 HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA v: k4.15.0-42-generic
Network: Card-1: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: 34:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 18:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1512.3GB (24.1% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: Micron_1100_MTFD size: 512.1GB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: TOSHIBA_MQ04ABF1 size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 46G used: 27G (62%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
ID-2: swap-1 size: 17.33GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb3
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 50C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 277 Uptime: 9 min Memory: 3130.3/15924.8MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

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