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bcode
Adept I

AMD A8-7680 Ubuntu

Hi,

I am trying to build a computer with the following hardware:

MOBO: ASUS A68HM-Plus

CPU: AMD A8-7680

RAM: 16GB (2x8 GB) Patriot Viper 3, DDR3 1600 MHz

DISPLAY: LG 25UM58

SSD: SAMSUNG 1TB


I had problems to make it working with Ubuntu 18.04 so I moved back to 16.04. The first think I had to face was the blank screen at login, so I added "nomodeset" to Grub as suggested by several blog entries. Then, once the system is up and running, from terminal I checked the video driver in use by using the command  lshw -c video  but there is no  "driver=" at "configuration:" entry. Then I also used  lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3  and indeed amdgpu was listed in "Kernel modules:"  but no entry for "Kernel driver in use:". The amdgpu driver should be pre-installed in Ubuntu 16.04+ but I tried also to reinstall: nothing changed. As result, the video is only at 1024x768.

Thank you

1 Solution

After compiling my experience with Web knowledge, the problem may be Secure Boot set to Enabled.

For your motherboard, this option should be in BIOS (UEFI) in the Boot section (top bar). Secure Boot option. Set Secure Boot to Disabled. Save the settings, start Ubuntu and run these two commands again and show the results.

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