dell inspirion 7559 -- ubuntu 16.04 booted up using `nomodese` to login screen successfully but desktop is now showing after logging in

Question

I'm a very novice user of ubuntu, tried installing ubuntu on my dell 7559 15" laptop. Installed it successfully after some search, I had to press e and add the following line to grub bootloader nomodeset added that... installed it successfully after when I went to start the ubuntu

I repeated the added nomodest in bootloader again to run ubuntu 16.04 ran it to login screen image below.

once I logged in no desktop loaded, the following image

Any Idea?

Kindly help me, what should I do to get it working...

thank you @AndroidDev I'll try that today come back if i need any help regards — Amjad, Jul 01 '16 at 12:25
@AndroidDev I can't manage to do anything on that desktop... everything is blinking very very fast even terminal.... I'm using UEFI bios... as I said I'm not that technical when it comes to using ubuntu... please help — Amjad, Jul 01 '16 at 14:07
blinking display/display of of the terminal at very rapid speed... like you blink your eye open close — Amjad, Jul 01 '16 at 14:10

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '16 at 05:22

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Please try replacing nomodeset with nouveau.modeset=0.

answered Jul 02 '16 at 05:22

Punit Arya

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This does not provide an answer to the question. Once you have sufficient reputation you will be able to comment on any post; instead, provide answers that don't require clarification from the asker. - From Review – Pilot6 Jul 02 '16 at 09:23
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This is very much a possible solution. I can't test it cuz I don't have this particular hardware but I can assure you this problem is because of the i7 skylake processor & nvidia 960m GPU which this Laptop has. I too had resolved the same issue on the same combination of processor & GPU using this command line argument – Punit Arya Jul 02 '16 at 09:38
one more thing buddy, do I have to add this everytime when i boot my laptop to ubuntu OS ? is there a permanent fix? – Amjad Jul 03 '16 at 14:22
You can make it permanent by editing the /etc/grub/default.cfg file. Then run sudo update-grub . Not sure about the exact commands, a quick Google search to update kernel parameters will tell you both – Punit Arya Jul 03 '16 at 14:29

dell inspirion 7559 -- ubuntu 16.04 booted up using `nomodese` to login screen successfully but desktop is now showing after logging in

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