10-06-2018, 06:53 PM
No question here; I just wanted to add my experience. I'm using an older HP laptop G60-231WM, AMD Athlonx2 64-bit. The HP specs page lists the graphics card as NVIDIA GeForce 8200M, but Ubuntu 18.04 consistently identifies it as the 8200M G. I started at LinuxLite 4.0 which is based on 18.04. When I tried to use the default Nouveau driver, the fan runs hard all the time and flickers and laggy playback happen on high-demand graphics or even just YouTube at 720p resolution. When I switched to Nvidia's 340.xx driver, I got frequent lockups with crazy stuff happening on the screen. When I tried to apt-get install nvidia-304, it told me the package was unavailable. Finally, I downgraded to LinuxLite 3.8, installed nvidia-304 (nvidia-304.135 driver) and got great results with YouTube, DVDs, AND lower fan workload. I'm really happy with LinuxLite 3.8 and the Nvidia 304 driver.