[Solved] - Tower's 1st [no, 3rd] Hard-Reset since clean-reinstall.

[kdemeoz]

Greetings once more.

OK, so you have Intel Haswell i7-4790, which has an Intel integrated HD 4600 GPU, which is more powerful than the Nvidia GT 610

Oh golly, i had no idea!  

I'm quite puzzled why on earth are you even using that Nvidia card at all?

Ah, well that's easy for me to answer, but you'd best sit down as i need to lay some heavy-duty tech stuff on ya. Reason = ...that's what came in my Tower  

From all this that was written up until now, my recommendation would be:

1. either physically take out the Nvidia card from the Tower and use only integrated Intel card
2. or if you cannot take the Nvidia GPU out, switch back to proprietary Nvidia driver and via it, switch to the Intel integrated card, either via the Nvidia GUI or via command

As a lazy cow, i shall try for #2 before having to resort to #1. Will try it after posting this.

remove the 4.9.9 kernel (because it's not tested thoroughly and it can be quite unstable) and install the one from HWE, so 4.8, which is much more stable and thoroughly tested

Certainly i'm happy & willing to do this too, but just to double-check, to "get" the 4.8 HWE kernel into my Tower, i assume that means running the:

Code:

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04

...per your https://forums.mauilinux.org/showthread....4#pid41774 -- (ie, giving me not only the kernel, but all the other stuff you explained therein]?