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Ubuntu 13.04 Monitor & Resolution Issues on Older Nvidia Card

When I do a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04 on a computer with an older Nvidia Quadro FX 500 128mb agp card, I cannot get the display to work. There are a number of things that happen: On some fresh ...
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Troubleshooting poor performance with ATI HD 5800 GPU

I am attempting again to solve problems between ATI Radeon HD 5800 series (5830) GPU and Ubuntu. Three months ago I posted: Display difficulties with Ubuntu 12.10, Dual Monitors, and ATI HD 5800 I ...
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Nvidia Geforce GT630 resolution problem

I installed the drivers but the maximum resolution I can get is 1360x768. Can I get to 1920x1080? On Windows it worked fine. Edit: I have Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
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display not sharp enough on external monitor

i am using ubuntu 12.04. The Display looks sharp enough on my laptop, but when i connect it to my external monitor (hp 2311x) it looks slightly blurry. I tried installing intel-linux-graphic-drivers ...
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Savage S3 and Lubuntu (or any flavour) 12.10 big issue

Please be nice with me: I spent all the night with it and I'm exausted. I've got an old Acer Aspire1300 15"(512+256RAM and 1.3 mhz cpu). I tried all night installing Lubuntu, XUbuntu.. lspci -k ...
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Why does ATI Radeon have choppy display on Linux? [duplicate]

I'm using Radeon HD 7700M on Ubuntu 12.10 and I'm using Catalyst 13.1 as the graphics driver. The problem is that I keep getting these horizontal lines appearing on the screen that look like the ...
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Catalyst control center settings not loading on startup

I set Ubuntu to use the proprietary AMD fglrx drivers included in the software sources menu. After first rebooting, I noticed that the image on my monitor was not scaled to fill my monitor completely, ...
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Display corruption with fglrx drivers

I've been having some problems with the AMD 12.10 and 13.1 drivers. Basically there always appear to be flashing lines going across my screen. It happen all the time and every key input makes it ...
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12.04 losing display settings on startup

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop at work. It seems like every other week when I boot up my computer it loses its display settings. It's to the point where I have to bring up the virtual console ...
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Blank screen upon boot after installing nvidia drivers. 12.10 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? I tried to install nvidia Drivers on my most recent install of 12.10. Now it no longer boots to ...
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NVidia GeForce GT 540M Drivers not Working

I have upgraded my laptop to dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10, which is fine and all, but I have been updating the drivers on the Ubuntu side of things, but I have downloaded and executed ...
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How to get back my proper display driver settings after (wrongly) installing AMD Catalyst Control Center?

After having this problem, and following this answer, I have installed AMD Catalyst Control Center (fglrx-amdcccle) and after reboot my display was all wrong, stuck to 1280x1024. I have un-installed ...
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Cant see edges of my screen. How do I fix it?

I have a Hisense 42" LCD TV (1080p) connected via HDMI to my ASUS K53E laptop and when I switch it to 1080p (second screen only) I cant see the edges of my screen, and it says my TV is a Hitachi 52" ...
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How to investigate display lockup after Alt-Tab switching?

Running Kubuntu 12.10 on a Dell Latitude E6500 running the free NVIDIA driver for my display. If I hit alt-tab to switch between windows too fast the display locks up and the only way I can unlock it ...
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How to tell which graphics card is being used in a hybrid system?

How do I know which graphics card is being used in a hybrid system? From lspci: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] ...
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Ubuntu stops using Nvidia driver after kernel upgrade

Just updated and restarted, Ubuntu's doesn't display correctly. After restart, the desktop now looks like this. I've temporarily switched to the Nouveau driver. The update history reveals the kernel ...
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NVIDIA driver can no longer detect external display

I used to be able to configure my external display with my laptop via the NVIDIA X Server Settings, in `X Server Display Configuration'. However, this screen currently looks like the following: I ...
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Overscan, Ubuntu 12.04, Nvidia driver

I know there are many questions about overscan around but I cant seem to find a working solution. I know the cause of this is the Nvidia driver, as I have no problems with the default driver, so I ...
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12.10 starts up to just my desktop background [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Unity does not start after installing the fglrx drivers on 12.10 I have only just started using linux more than just instlling it on an old pc for fun and have just ...
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GUI look garbled in 12.10

lshw says it display UNCLAIMED. But below it says with product: VT8636A prosavage KN133 AGP4X VGA twister. How can i set the correct display driver via terminal?
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Linux kernel 3.5.0-18 update is not working with NVIDIA driver 304.60

I have Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit and a Nvidia card GT430 and installed 304.60 Linux driver manually and it worked beautifully until the latest Ubuntu update which got modified to 3.5.0-18 Kernel. Everything ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 won't display properly after kernel upgrade

After updating a system today, Ubuntu's doesn't display correctly. The desktop now looks like this. It was working properly before. I had to use the terminal to run synaptic package manager, so I ...
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No nvidia-drivers

I have a dell M4600 with NVidia Quattro K2000m. After first installing Ubuntu it showed 2 experimental drives in "Additional drivers". After reboot, they were gone. And I don't have any xorg.conf. It ...
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emachines e725 display very light

After hard installation of Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows 8 the display light is very high. How can I reduce it. I used fn+right or left arrow but nothing changed. I am new in Ubuntu.
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display driver problem [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Unity doesn’t load, no Launcher, no Dash appears I just recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop and am keeping windows 7 as a back up for when I get stuck like ...
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Dell E6500 in docking station with external display

I have Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit installed on a Dell E6500 laptop, most of the time in docking station, with external Dell 21" display. When installing additional drivers for the nVidia graphics card the ...
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Displaylink USB show “Logo / Loading” on monitor

I tried with this problem for 2 years already. LOL, today, I install Ubuntu for I have to resolve it or I will back to stupid Windows 7. First, I have 3 monitors. My graphic card is support dual ( ...
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Can't install graphic drivers in 12.04

The driver is ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver. After clicking Activate, it asks for my password and starts downloading. Then it shows an error message: 2012-10-03 16:16:04,227 DEBUG: ...
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How to try Ubuntu on a hp pavilion g7-1246ef computer that has no Linux suport for video card?

I want to try Ubuntu on a hp pavilion g7-1246ef computer. I got it as a 64 bit system with a win7 64 bit but now it runs a 32 bit win 7 (due to canon printer driver issue). The Windows device manager ...
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Unable to View Graphic Information under System Details in 12.04 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I get my Intel integrated graphics to be recognized in System Info I am unable to view graphic info when I click on system details, it says Graphic as Unknown. ...
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Nvidia Driver problems: 1440x900 resolution - 12.04 [closed]

I installed 12.04 and my system works fine. But after updating packages with the update manager, problems occurred. I can't activate the Nvidia drivers (Control Center -> Additional Drivers). When I ...
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VGA Monitor won't display after NVIDIA driver install on Ubuntu 12.04

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04, and the first thing that came up was the driver manager, which told me to install the drivers for my nvidia graphics card (I don't remember what it is). I have a ...
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Screen blanks randomly on 12.04 Ubuntu

I boot up 12.04, fresh installation, thinking the problem I had in 11.04 is solved, but it isn't. After about 5 minutes of working on various applications, it doesn't seem to matter what it is I am ...
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Installing nvidia driver?

I have ubuntu 12.04 running on my laptop. I've been trying to install a 2nd monitor on it, but ubuntu does not detect the second monitor. I have an nvidia card on my laptop, and ubuntu was using the ...
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How do I get Ubuntu to display on my TV using S-video?

Please excuse if I am not explain this correctly and/or not providing enough/to much/the correct information. Have a Dell Inspiron 1521 laptop w/ Ubuntu 12.04. I believe* the video card is AMD Nee ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 on eee pc 1101HA - Screen is repeated and distorted on wake up from suspend [closed]

This did not solve my problem: Screen messed up when resumes from suspend I am using an eee PC model 1101HA. When I just lock the screen from the menu it works; it goes to the login screen and ...
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Desktop autoshutdown problem [closed]

Hello to all volunteers here. :) My desktop is an assembled one, forged from Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2.93 GHz, with RAM of 2 GB. It has a Samsung monitor, and I dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu ...
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Can not change display resolution on a Sony VGN-FZ21M

My Sony Notebook VGN-FZ21M does have a NVIDIA grafic card with a VESA G86 Board - e415h01. My Problem is, that i can not change the display resolution from 1024*768 (4:3) to 1980*1280. I tried to in ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is unstable on my system

I have installed 12.04 LTS as a Upgrade and even after waiting for that seemed to be a very long time to complete, I found the system to be unstable and for apps not to work. So I decided to format ...
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Unusable desktops settings with nVidia

I am owner of nVidia GeForce GT 320M and I have two displays: external montior BenQ 1920x1080 and laptop's display 1366x768. Ubuntu with installed additional hardware drivers recognize my monitors ...
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How do I improve performance on an ATI Radeon 9550?

I'm using the latest version of Ubuntu (32-bit) and I didn't find a solution to make my video card work fine. I mean that my graphic card has poor performance on watching videos. I've tried a lot of ...
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Nvidia VGA and Ubuntu 11.10 problem

I installed Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 and it used the default settings and vga driver : unknown both screens sere working regardless of the errors of turning the laptop's off then both go off forever! so I ...
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Display problem on an Acer 7700GX

i have just put ubuntu onto an old Acer 7700GX. it all looks lovely for a few minutes but then the desktop background goes blocky and the text goes a bit crazy. this doesn't seem to affect new windows ...
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11.10 7600gt display error

So i used to use Ubuntu back when it was 8 and it never gave me any problems but recently i did a fresh install of 11.10. But now when i install the N-Vidia restricted drivers i cant change my screen ...
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How can I check if video driver is installed properly [closed]

I cannot run some games and programs in Ubuntu. I click them but they don't give any response. I guess the common ground of these programs (hedgewars, supertux 2, blender,... ) is that they have ...
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Need display driver for acer aspire one [closed]

Where can I get a display driver for Acer Aspire One?
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Can I make Ubuntu graphics equivelant to Windows 7 with a hd 3000 chip?

Every time I run Ubuntu on my Thinkpad the visual appearance of the system, desktop and applications does not look very crisp and the colors don't stand out. When I load windows 7, graphics are much ...
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How can I fix my xvinfo?

How can i fix my X server/driver? $ xvinfo X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 no adaptors present Additional info: $ uname -a Linux desktop 2.6.32-33-generic #70-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 7 ...
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What is wrong when the X display does not cover 100% of the framebuffer on a HP2540p laptop

Whenever I have a dual monitor setup on my Laptop, one screen is the laptop display and the other the external monitor, I get into trouble with the X server framebuffers. Often the larger of the two ...
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Can't start kubuntu 64bit after installation [closed]

i think this driver problem and how can i install driver. //i am can't do anything with strange vertical lined screen// My computer laptop vostro 1000 amd64 Graphic card Radeon xpress 200 I started ...

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