Trying to install Ubuntu 22.04 on 2024 LG Gram with RTX3050 - graphics is blank screen with blinking cursor

Graphics / Linux Linux
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I’ve upgraded from a 2020 LG Gram laptop to the 2024 LG Gram that has the RTX3050 (17Z90SP).

I can get ubuntu installed and can get to a prompt, but when it boots it tries to startup X and gets stuck. This seems to happen even if I try to startup with GLX turned off, if I’m doing that right.

What’s weird is that the Ubuntu install image (from USB drive) had no problem running X/graphics. How can I get that much working, whether or not I manage to get any acceleration at first?

I’ve installed the 550 drivers as ubuntu-drivers requested.

Attaching a bunch of logs, let me know if I’m missing any. The Xorg log is from trying to startx on tty2 with GLX off. Same exact results.

So maybe not an NVIDIA problem - but trying to figure out where to look next.

dmesg.log (84.4 KB)
lspci.log (16.2 KB)
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (138.8 KB)
Xorg.2.log (9.4 KB)

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The kernel and firmware is too old to drive your intel igpu. I’d recommend installing 24.04 beta.

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I bought the same machine as you have(2024 gram with RTX3050) and had a same issue.
I solved it with Ubuntu 24.04 installation. 22.04 doesn’t seem to support appropriate kernel for the newest devices.

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Okay - so I installed 24.04 and now I can get things working with the intel built-in graphics, but still no NVIDIA.

It seems that it wants to install the 535 driver, and has installed it, but I can’t turn it on or find any info on it:

udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
nvidia-driver-535-server-open, (kernel modules provided by linux-modules-nvidia-535-server-open-generic)
nvidia-driver-535, (kernel modules provided by linux-modules-nvidia-535-generic)
nvidia-driver-535-server, (kernel modules provided by linux-modules-nvidia-535-server-generic)
nvidia-driver-535-open, (kernel modules provided by linux-modules-nvidia-535-open-generic)

% ubuntu-drivers install
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
All the available drivers are already installed.

% nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

% ls /proc/driver/nvidia
ls: cannot access '/proc/driver/nvidia': No such file or directory

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Could you confirm if 24.04 has someway to activate systemd’s sleep-then-hibernate option? It is not clear for me if this possibility came back to systemd or it is still blocked by the programmer that removed it. It is kind of a blocker, as I use the laptop every now and then and I don’t want to find it dried out everytime.

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Hi, did you manage to solve it? Have you done any A/B tests on games?

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I am running Kubuntu 24.04 on an LG Gram 16 Model 16Z90 and have this problem (but I have the Intel Iris Xe GPU). Narrowed it down to the splash kernel command line parameter when booting. To fix:

  1. Boot a Recovery kernel (which is missing splash but includes nomodeset which breaks other things).
  2. In a shell, edit /etc/defaults/grub and remove splash from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT.
  3. Rebuild bootloader configuration with update-grub.
  4. Reboot.
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So is your LG model, the one with the OLED screen 2-in-1 style or not ?
Are you able to use every aspect of LG Gram 16 2024 with Kubuntu 22.04 ?
Every driver recognized? Touch inputs, pencil drawing, keyboard, touchpad, bluetooth, webcam, screen rotation, audio, etc.
I’ve used 3 different generations of HP Spectre X360 15 in the last 10 years, the last two being with dual boot with Ubuntu and I was able to use every aspect of the computer.

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Mine is not the 2-in-1 style; it’s a regular laptop. Screen is a QHD touchscreen.

Yes to all available/known functions. Kubuntu 24.04 presents a “Keyboard Brightness” slider control in the “Backlight and Brightness” system tray control, but adjusting that has no effect on keyboard backlight.

I am very happy with my LG Gram 16Z90 purchase and Kubuntu 24.04’s support of the hardware.

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I’m sorry - I haven’t had a chance to get it working yet. I upgraded to 24.04 but that was not enough.

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Just to have it documented someplace. I upgraded 24.04 to 24.10 and I got the black screen with cursor. I tried some times always with the same result. As I wanted to save what I had in the system, I ended up renaming all root folders but /home to other names: mv /etc /etc.deleteme; mv /dev /dev.deleteme;… (cannot tell now If I left any of them.
Then I installed Kubuntu 24.10 from scratch, without partitioning the disk and it installed ok.
Not very beautiful, but worked.