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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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Dual display with 13.04 - how?

I have an ATI display adaptor with DVI & VGA. It has 1280x1024 on DVI and 1440x990 on VGA. With Windows I can run the OS on the DVI display and anything I want on the 1280 by default or drag it ...
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How to set up two HDMI monitors with nvidia/intel combo?

I have a combo of intel motherboard and nvidia video card with dual booting (Windows7 & Ubuntu 12.10) Two HDMI monitors are properly detected in Windows 7 (in BIOS setting, I set the nvidia card ...
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video/display is dark on HDMI out

I plugged HDMI cable in to Samsung tv to watch the video. I can see the video and hear the sound, however the video is very dark. Too dark to watch. I've tried using the default video player and VLC ...
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My screen display is smudgy and unclear. Can I improve its quality?

I'm a recent happy convert from Windows. One thing about Ubuntu (12;10) though, is the quality of its display. It is smudgy and blurred compare to Vista. I set the resolution to the max 1440 x 900 ...
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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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Random white pixels on screen

I have an Ubuntu 12.04 installed with a ATI Radeon HD 6550D. The problem is, that sometimes, there are random white pixels at the screen, which appears especially on dark areas of the screen. This is ...
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Display difficulties with Ubuntu 12.10, Dual Monitors, and ATI HD 5800

I have the ubiquitous and difficult display problems. I have a very limited understanding of everything regarding graphic display mechanics, and Gnome specific terms, so please let me know if you ...
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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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How do I rotate my display when not using an X Server?

I have a widescreen monitor that rotates. I'm trying to use it in 'landscape' mode (vertical). This is easy in the GUI. How do I rotate my display when I am not running an X Server or when I am ...
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Why is my display getting garbled?

I recently installed the latest Ubuntu version 12.10 on my USB stick and booted my laptop with it. The OS runs just fine and as expected but there are a few niggles though! Sometimes when I start a ...
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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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AO522 ubuntu 12.10 several reboot incase of black screen

My acer aspire one 522 with a new ubuntu 12.10 or Kubuntu 12.10 installation (dual boot with win7) sometimes has a black screen but if I reboot once or more, I can login on desktop. How can I fix ...
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Display problem when adjusting brightness in ubuntu 12.04

Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Dell 1554 laptop. I was adjusting my screen brightness when this happened : this has become a recurring problem which is really annoying. I also want to ...
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Desktop goes blurry / granulated

After few minutes using, desktop and fonts in unity-menu goes blurry. See screenshot: Closer image: In all applications (browser etc.) graphics seem to be allright. After rebooting problem ...
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When Setting Up Dual Monitors with Nvidia The Second Display got a Low Resolution? [closed]

I have just setup a dual monitor system with a 23 inch LED monitor and a 19 inch LCD monitor. The 23 inch one is connected through HDMI. The 19 inch one is connected to the analogue port of the same ...
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Multiple displays stopped working

I am using a laptop with Intel integrated graphics and an ATI 5650 graphics. I used to be able to switch between the two using the opensource drivers and vgaswitcheroo so that I could use my laptop's ...
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Display problems on Ubuntu 12.10 : “ERROR Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!”

It seems like there's been such problems with external monitors for a while, but even if I updated everything I knew that could be upgraded, I still face the same problem. I have an old laptop that ...
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Distorted graphics on start up

So I am using dual monitors and every time I boot up my machine after entering my password to login, both screens show distorted graphics which eventually go away. I am on Ubuntu 12.10 the OS type is ...
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ASUS EPC 1015CX won't boot with display after installing additional drivers

I have a ASUS EPC 1015CX with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed using wubi alongside Windows 7. It worked perfectly after installing except that the supported screen resolution was only 800*600 instead of ...
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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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Display has problems after xorg edgers

Some time ago trying to improve graphics I installed the xorg edgers ppa. This leaved me without graphic mode, finally I fixed it. But there are some problems, sometimes the text or the folders fade ...
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What package would allow a 1280x768 display for Intel 82915G/GV/910GL?

Here's the result of sudo lspci | grep VGA: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04) What steps do I need to allow higher ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 won't recognise my 2 monitors

I've got 2 monitors plugged into my nvidia quadro fx1700 graphics card but Ubuntu only recognises my HD monitor (says its a laptop monitor) and ignores the other one. Is there any way I can force it ...
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Ubuntu crashes at boot screen, saying 'No display device is active' [closed]

When I try to boot Ubuntu 12.04 it will crash and I have to restart my PC. I'm dual booting Windows 7, right now when I try to boot it gets to the purple screen but nothing shows up. It will stay on ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Nvida 550ti drivers

I can't seem to locate any working drivers for the 550ti. I have downloaded the file from nvidias site and run it, but it just doesn't seem to help. I am still unable to increase the resolution, ...
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Intel 945GM Chipset Dual Monitor, rotated display only

I have a weird issue with my HP laptop, when connecting it to a 32" LCD TV, I would like to run at 1360x768. The mode exists, however will only allow me to put it on in vertical mode, not rotate ...
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How to set up multiple GPUs (12.04)?

I have two GPUs: one Intel i915 integrated, and one NVIDIA 560 Ti. This is NOT a hybrid setup, nor a laptop. In Windows 7, each card is connected to a different monitor, with the NVIDIA doing any ...
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Why do the Nvidia drivers not detect my monitor's highest resolution? [closed]

Ubuntu 12.04 32bits. Graphic card: Nvidia LE7300. Nvidia driver version: 295.40. Monitor: Philips 220AW8. The monitor supports up to 1600x1050 resolution. In Nvidia X Server the maximum resolution is ...
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How to add display resolution fo an LCD in Ubuntu 12.04? xrandr problem

I am fresh for Ubuntu and Linux in general. I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 and stuck trying to setup correct resolution for my LCD display. The native resolution for the LCD is 1920x1080 here is the ...
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Error message “Signal out of range 92KHz - 58Hz ” when starting Ubuntu. What is wrong and how can I fix it?

My monitor has an Analogical connection. First I install windows 7, then I install Ubuntu 11.10, when this installation finish I restarted the PC. Any time there I turn on the PC I see the BIOS ...
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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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Display issues when running VirtualBox [closed]

I have 11.10 installed and it works great. The OS sits on a Dell XPS with Nvidia graphics. Has anyone run into display flickering when running virtual box on ubuntu? The display jumps from the last ...
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My laptop display is just a black screen

the external display works fine but my main display is just black i know it works beacuse it works fine in windows but it wont work in linux D: my laptop is a acer-aspire 5734z ive tryed reinstalling ...
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How to obtain 1360x780 resolution on an Asus K50C with a Sis 771? [closed]

Unfortunately, also with this new 11.10 distro I can not put an higher resolution than 1280...any suggestions to fix it? I have an Asus K50C with a SiS 771 graphic card (unfortunately...sigh) here it ...
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External display is showing and reporting wrong resolutions

I'm running 11.04 in dual-boot on my macbook pro (2010). I've got an external monitor connected which I've configured through nvidia settings to be it's own X display. When I open the nvidia settings ...
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graphics problem and no volume control icon after installation

After my installation, I saw a message saying 22 files were broken. Then a window appeared, and I selected the broken files and removed them. Since then, I haven't had a volume control icon on my ...
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Unreadable characters in programs (graphic glitch)

A picture is worth a thousand words... Screenshot (gVim) - Screenshot (LibreOffice) - The Appearance Preferences dialog - Anyone know what causes it and how it can be fixed? If it's ...
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Ubuntu 10.10 not normal boot screen [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Boot screen in low graphics/text mode Hi everyone, I have installed the latest ATI Drivers from AMD's website and everything's working fine. It's just that with these ...
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How to remove flickering green lines on screen?

I've been using Ubuntu 10.10 on my HP Pavilion dv4-1430us Notebook. For some time now, I've been getting these thin green flickering lines at the bottom of my screen. And I've no clue as to what's ...
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adjust resolution on Ubuntu Server 10.04?

Installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 on an old laptop and I noticed that the system is trying to show the CLI below my screen. This means that if I run a script or a program with a bunch of output, once it ...
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Upgrade to Maverick broke the display resolution - Dell Studio

My system used to display the Full HD resolution - the native, very well on the Karmic. I upgraded my system to Maverick and the maximum 16:9 resolution X server supports is 1280x720. As far as I ...