Hello forum. I believe this is my first post. I have, however, been a reader of this forum for some time.
I am having a problem with my newly bought ultrabook (Asus UX302lg, specs below). Well for starters, it had Win8 pre-installed. Tried Win8 for some hours and decided to completely remove it and install Slackware on it (my primary os). After playing around with GPT and UEFI (a new concept for me), I finally got it installed.
Under first boot I can see the boot text (do not know what it is called, sorry, but same as shows up with
command) and in the end of the lines, the internal monitor turns black, with backlight. When I connect an external monitor the terminal shows up there, but wrong resolution (is it connected on boot, it starts with a useable resolution on external monitor). I can
etc and x starts on the external monitor.
I've tried with nomodeset and then I get the terminal on the internal screen, but cannot startx. Because of this fault I thought it might be wise to install proprietary drivers for my Nvidia GPU. So I installed Bumblebee according to the slackdocs. Can run Optirun etc, without problems. I can configure xrandr so the internal is right to the external etc, and it looks like it is configured and working, but is still black.
I had the same problem on Debian and Ubuntu as well, but I am using Slackware 14.1 at the moment and believe this problem has something to do with the loading of the kernel or something around there.
I was wondering if some of you might have encountered a similar problem and how it was fixed. The amount spent on fixing this is way over 30 hours and this is the first time I've encountered any major problems on Linux-systems, as well as it's on a newly bought computer. Starting to get desperate and frustrated, that's why I'm posting it here.
Thanks in advance.
Ultrabook specs:
Intel i7 U4500 CPU
Intel HD 4400 gpu-chip(?)
Nvidia 730M GPU
FHD (1920x1080) internal monitor (shows up in xrandr as eDP1)
also HDMI output and mDP output (using a mDP to vga adapter for external montior)
External monitor specs:
Old 4:3 1280x1024 HP (shows up in xrandr as DP1), connected to mDP output through a vga adapter.