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Power off the monitor on install Ubuntu 13.04
When i try to install Ubuntu 13.04 , I have problem to display .
In first i see the page same as blank after about 5 sec monitor power off and get to standby mode but the dvd-rom is worked hard and ...
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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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How to handle windows on multiple screens?
I've multiple screens i.e. one computer monitor and one TV. It would be preferable if, when the TV is turned off, nothing is sent to the TV but as it happens, I can have the TV turned off and ...
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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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Can't set resolution to 720p on my 1080p display
My display is a cheap ASUS VE248 that supports 1080p. But it's having some problems with 720p. And guess what. Yeah, I want to set it to 720p.
The reasoning behind this that you probably don't want ...
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Not Resuming After Suspend
My display card NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M fails to resume after suspend. It raises the error Nouveau E[ 1389] Failed To Idle Channel 0xcccc0000
*-display
description: VGA ...
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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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Screen flickers with Nvidia GPU
When I install the Nvidia driver (have tried both current and post-release current) the monitor flickers every time I open a new window/program such as Firefox. I don't know what else I'm going to do?
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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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DVI-VGA adapter problem
Is it possible to add unsupported resolution when monitor is connected via DVI -> VGA (passive probably) adapter? The problem is that the monitor (Acer AL1916W) is reported as CRT monitor, mainly ...
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Ubuntu 12.10. Can't add custom resolution
System: Ubuntu 12.10, nVidia Geforce GT240 (nvidia-current privative driver), LG display connected to VGA-0
The 1920x1080 resolution is not listed, I've added it in Windows but I'm having problems ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Nvidia Geforce 320M Macbook (Mid 2010 - white clamshell)
So basically X can't start on my Macbook mid 2010 running the Geforce 320M after installing the geforce driver.
It never really came up properly even out of the box, though the Live version seemed to ...
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Setting up xorg.conf metamodes for nvidia letterboxing
I'm currently trying to configure my xorg.conf to letterbox screen resolutions smaller than the native resolution of my display (1680x1050) so that I can play older games full screen without ...
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nVidea 2nd Graphics card not detected
I have installed two video cards on my new desktop in which I installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 32 bit, each of the cards has both DVI and VGA. On the first video card I have 2 screens, which worked out of ...
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NVIDIA Display Settings Wiped on Reboot Ubuntu 12.10 64bit
I have the latest (31X beta) NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit and no matter how many times I save my display configuration settings after editing my refresh rate and dual monitor position the ...
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How do I change screen resolution?
I am unable to change my screen resolution in my ubuntu 12.04. My default screen resolution was 1366x768. I had executed nvidia-xconfig to activate NVIDIA driver. Since then my screen resolution has ...
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How to provide second monitors resolution to application?
I have a dual monitor setup, with the basic TwinView settings from my Nvidia-card (550 Ti). One monitor is my primary display (1600x900) and the other is my TV (1920*1080).
I have arranged XBMC to ...
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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]
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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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Overscan Nvidia 64bit
I always get overscan on my tv, this was not a problem on a 32bit pc I could just run
nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="DFP-0: 1920x1080 { iewPortIn=1920x1080, ViewPortOut=1820x1020+50+30 }"
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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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Ubuntu won't do 1920x1080
Both my monitors (one over DVI other over HDMI) have a native resolution of 1920x1080 (16:9) but the only two options for resolution in the "Display" section of system settings are 800x600 (4:3) and ...
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How can I solve my display issues?
Problem: installed ubuntu 12.04 i have 4 screens, only 1 works, the other 3 screens are white and the mouse is an X, it does not show them in displays, it just shows 1 screen, but when i go to nvidia ...
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Overscan compensation issue
Since upgrading to 12.10 I cant permanently fix overscan on my tv.
Using this code I can fix the overscan
sudo nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="DFP-1: 1920x1080 { ...
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xubutnu Nvidia Settings not remembered
I have an Nvidia card and I'm using NVIDIA Driver Version: 304.51 and the NVIDIA X Server Settings GUI.
Everything works fine but when I reboot and login again both my two screens are set to +0 +0 so ...
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Best triple head display setup
I'm currently running Ubuntu 12.04 with a darn good triple head display setup. I've got a VisionTek 900530 Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR3 PCI Express video card that has two DVI outputs and one Mini ...
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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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How to find out right drivers for Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop?
How to find out right drivers for Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop? how to find out whether something wrong at BIOS level?
Recently installed Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS on my laptop and upgraded it to 12.10, ...
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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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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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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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Enabling dual displayport monitor with 12.04 and Lenovo W530. Triple, but no quad monitor
I can get 3 monitors, but not 4 monitors! Pretty cool, but a few issues.
I've got a Lenovo W530 and have 12.04. AWESOME. About 3x the performance of my old W500. The W530 supports a displayport ...
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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 cloning doesn't work anymore (nVidia)
I used to clone my laptop's display to an external monitor by just typing disper -c in a terminal. One of the recent updates broke this functionality. It now says
$ disper -c
displays share no common ...
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Odd Display Issue
I've recently installed 12.04 along side Win7 on my laptop. When Ubuntu loads up I get two bars filled with diagonal lines splitting my display into thirds and one black bar splitting it again in ...
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My 2nd screen going gray after kernel upgrade to 3.2.0-30. (12.04) [closed]
My video card is nvidia GT 9400.
Same as title, I upgrade kernel from 3.2.029 to 3.2.0-30 yesterday.
After upgrade, 2nd monitor turn to gray & could not configure.
My xorg.conf is ...
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I can't set 1280x1024 resolution in 12.04
After installing a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 on my PC, Ubuntu can't detect my monitor which is a Phillips 190c 19".
With 10.10, I used 1280x1024 and on Nvidia drivers I was able to see my monitor brand. ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 dual screen - live version OK but does not work after installation
I have a desktop machine, a bit old Intel Core 2 4400 (64bit), with nVidia GeForce 7900, two Iiyamas, one 2403, one 2202.
The problem is that everything works fine under Live version -- the display ...
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NVIDIA vs. 12.04 Unity > Recovery
I had successfully installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-302.07.run from the nVidia website. That got me nothing but an unalterable 640x480 screen. purge and autoremove didn't seem to undo it.
I attempted, ...
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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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.run file is not working. I double click and get: could not display, file is of unknown type
So, the only thing I can think of is that Ubuntu did not correctly install some software as it doesn't recognize .run files. I checked "allow to run as executable file", but nothing.
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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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Xrandr display recieving problem
I have two displays connected to a Ge-force 210 on my Dell running Ubuntu 12.04. One is using DVI the other VGA. The DVI display had a mode for its max resolution (1680x1050) which I selected. The VGA ...
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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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nvidia GTK warning [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Gdk Gtk warnings and errors from the command line
Hi I was wondering if any one could ex plane this error to me
When I open my Nadia-settings as root it always gives ...
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Resolution mismatch
I recently bought a new desktop and installed the latest version of the ubuntu on it. Here are the desktop specs:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883148054R
I am using a TV as a ...
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External display not detected on Lenovo T520
In Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, I installed nvidia-current-updates and enabled the discrete NVIDIA card only in BIOS (Optimus completely disabled). Ubuntu uses the nvidia driver but fails to detect an external ...
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unable to install nvidia drivers on ubuntu 12.04
I am trying to install Nvidia drivers on sony vaio E series with nvidia GEforce
When I try to instal additional drivers its coming like unable to download . for more options see /var/log/jockey.log ...
