I installed a fresh version of Kubuntu 18.04.5 in my old MSI CR400 with Intel Celeron 900, 4 GB RAM and NVidia GeForce 8200M Graphics. First of all the normal boot from a USB Image doesn't go through, it get stuck in a black screen for eternity. I googled what caused this problem and folks here said I should probably run it with nomodeset which can be set at USB boot using f6. So I set it and it started working. Now when I finished installing and reboot, it reboots normally, but at a fixed resolution of 648x480. My screen is a 1366x768 display and the Windows 8.1 I am Dual Booting runs smooth on it.
What's more is that during USB Live Boot with nomodeset enabled, it ran at a resolution of 1024x768. So next I disabled/removed nomodeset during the GRUB prompt by pressing e at boot time.
But then it didn't even move to the login screen, it just stays blank.
Next I opened up a Stack Exchange thread and it said to change display drivers to NVidia Proprietary Drivers, which I did, only to find my system crashing as I opened System Settings to check / change my display resolution. This is not working at all. The thread later mentioned that the drivers from before version 40 don't support the display method or something.
Today, I decided to take one more shot and then ran into these same problems, so this time I followed this thread. But alas nothing worked. Do I have to make do with the bad resolution coz of the unsupported drivers or is there any other solution. Please help me, I need to make this work or else I am stuck using a really Intel N270 Powered Laptop.
