Questions related to hardware displays, either internal (as in a laptop) or external (as in most desktop monitors, or projectors)
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Brightness Control in ubuntu 13.04-64bit not working in Toshiba T110
I'm new to this forum and thought I'd try it out. So, much like every edition since about 11.10 brightness control doesn't work "out-of-the-box". I have a Toshiba Satellite T110-12P and although I've ...
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Maximum brightness is not maximum brightness
On my dual boot laptop I noticed that maximum brightness in Ubuntu and Windows 8 is totally different. In Windows 8 the screen is much much brighter at maximum level than it is at Ubuntu maximum ...
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Dell 3721 display problem Ubuntu 13.04
After I upgrade from ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 I can't change the brightness of the display, it remain in the darkest possible mode. I have a Dell 3721 laptop. Any advice?
@Dell:~$ lspci -nn | grep VGA
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HDMI sound without overscan on open-source drivers?
Is there a way to have a regular scanned display with audio via an HDMI connection on open-source drivers? Possibly a way to force DVI video output over HDMI instead of 1080p?
Machine: Dell Studio ...
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Bottom Half of Screen is Glitchy
Total newbie here...
I'm running 12.04 on a salvaged HP Pavilion zt1130. Video is S3 Savage4 AGP 4x... No idea if it's a card or what. I'm unable to find anything about a driver.
I'm having a ...
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Why does Ubuntu detect two screens when I have only one?
which is annoying, because when I take screenshot it takes screenshot from both screens (from an existing one and a non-existing one).
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Changing to a lower screen resolution
When I change the screen resolution of my laptop from 1366x768 to 1024x768 via [Displays ...], the entire screen is still filled. How can I have a 1-to-1 mapping such that the original proportions ...
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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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How do I change the maximum resolution of my computer for multiple monitors?
I am trying to enable three monitors for my setup in Ubuntu 12.10. My card is a Raedon 5700 HD series. When I try to extend my display to any additional monitors, I get the following error:
required ...
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Alt+tab multi displays
I'm Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome Shell on a HP Pavilion dm4 with an external display.
When I try to switch between applications using the Alt+tab shortcut, the box showing the applications is showed only ...
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How to figure out if a window is actually displayed on the screen using shell script?
I'm trying to write a shell script that recognizes if Thunderbird window is displayed and if so it disposes it to the messages tray.
I'd like to use it in this answer of "How to keep Thunderbird and ...
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Widi (Wireless Display) set up on Ubuntu 12.10
I recently purchased a Sony Vaio S Series Ultrabook that comes with Wireless Display. The steps to set this up on Windows 8 seem to be well documented but I haven't come across how to set this up on ...
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What does this fix for non-responsive mouse and keyboard do?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 and found that after about 20 minutes of work that my mouse and keyboard became very unresponsive. So I found the following fix (logging in as root - careful!!!):
sudo -i
To ...
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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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Switch windows only in current workspace and display
I have recently acquired a second display for use with my laptop running Ubuntu with xfce and compiz. However, one thing that has been bugging me is window switching: my second monitor has 2 windows ...
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Low resolution Dektop intel i7 3770 and intel board DH67BL
I installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 in a desktop with the following specs:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Motherboard: Intel DH67B
However the monitor is not identified (Monitor: Unknown) ...
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Dual monitor not working completely in 12.10 after upgrade
At 12.04, dual monitors worked perfectly. After upgrading to 12.10, the primary monitor works, the second monitor only partly works. I am sure there is some difference between the releases that I ...
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Problems with second display
First of all this problem is only with KDE.
Im configuring my displays with nvidia-settings. I set to both right Hz and resolution
But on second display allways there is some line that is separate ...
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Display in applications on ubuntu 12.10 is broken - maybe theme problem
I have a problem which looks like this:
If you take a look at buttons "Apply", "Reset", "Close" or any other buttons or drop-downs, you will see there is no style on them.
It is a fresh install ...
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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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Unable to enable dual displays
I am running an almost-fresh version of Ubuntu 12.04 on my old Dell Inspiron 710m laptop. I had to re-install yesterday due to a different display issue. I wasn't able to directly reinstall 12.04 ...
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External display, windows are moving to external display
I use external display with lenovo w520,
I am running it with following script
xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --primary --output VIRTUAL --mode 1920x1200 --left-of LVDS1
optirun screenclone -d :8 -x 1
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Default program startup display
I have a dual display setup and would like to be able to set which display a piece of software starts on. Most software seems to return to the last display but Stellarium always starts in the primary ...
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display resolution question
My machine has two hard drives, one has Fedora 64bit and one has Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. When running Fedora, I can set the resolution to 1600x1200. But I can only get 1280x1024 when Ubuntu is running.
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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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display port on x230 not working
having problems with my new lenovo x230 - using dual montiors, only vga registers anything. This has the Intel graphics controller : 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge ...
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Cannot find display :0.1
I'm using fujitsu LH531 Laptop with ubuntu 12.04, and with secondary 1440x900 monitor attached to the VGA, confirmed by xrandr command.
The problem is, i want to run a program (vlc) to the second ...
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verbose displayed halfly over text mode booting
I tried to boot my Ubuntu into text mode with verbosity enabled, this is what I configured in /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text init=/sbin/init --verbose vga=791"
then update-grub ...
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one desktop per monitor
It is possible to configure a desktop per monitor in Ubuntu 12.04 ?
If I enable 'simple desktop' in catalyst driver, one of my two screens is blank.
When I move my mouse in the blank screen, I have 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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After upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 video display hurts my eyes
I am running on an Asus X54H laptop (Intel video adapter).
When I installed Ubuntu 11.10 the video display was crisp and sharp, right out of the box. there was no need to do anything else beyond the ...
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Fix Overscan/ Underscan on HDTV Intel HD Graphics Card
I have my laptop running Ubuntu 12.10 hooked up via HDMI to my 24inch, 1080p HDTV though I am experiencing an overscan problem. When the tv cis connected, it cannot be run at the 1080x720 resolution ...
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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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Black screen when taking screenshot
I am getting black pictures when I try to take a screenshot with the PrtSc key (which calls Screenshot application).
My graphical system is a Nvidia optimus with Bumblebee installed (the problem ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 won't save display settings after reboot . How do I fix this?
When I mean display settings I mean desktop backgrounds or icons that I removed from the Unity launcher. It just goes back to the default every reboot. The only thing it did save is the theme that I ...
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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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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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How to avoid screen being stretched when mirroring a Notebook (16:9) to a projector (4:3)
I use Ubuntu 12.10 (Gnome 3) on a MacBook Air. I would like to connect the notebook to an external projector and mirror the displays. The projector image looks great, however, everything on the ...
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Display and projector got messy after screensaver or energy saver
I'm a professor and I use Ubuntu to show my students presentations about the content.
I get my laptop connected to a projector available in the room and, that works just fine at first glance. No keys ...
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How do I enable a third display with my setup?
I've been able to extend my monitor onto two displays at once, but I can't get it to work with three. When I use the System Settings > Display, it gives me the following error when I try to output to ...
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Text gets garbled after hibernate
My 12.04 install sometimes does this to the text on the screen:
This happens on all text in nautilus, all context menus, bookmarks/omnibox/statusbar on Chrome, and elsewhere in other programs. ...
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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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Screen randomly becomes black with cursor in Ubuntu 12.10
Sometimes when I am using Ubuntu 12.10 the screen will randomly become black with a cursor. The cursor represents whatever is below, such as a blinking text cursor if I am hovering over gedit, or a ...
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Desktop not displaying properly
I have installed #lubuntu 12:10 onto an older Pentium 3 PC with 512mb RAM and 20gb HD. I cannot make out the desktop as it is not being displayed properly. The mouse leaves massive trails which ...
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how do i check available displays
When you know what display you want apps to start by default you would do something like:
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
But suppose miss daisy, which is a frisky windows user that is giving linux a ...
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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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Waking up from “do nothing” state when lid closed
My laptop HP Pavillion DV6 8 Gb ram will not wake when you open the lid, key strokes and mouse movement is not recorded. Any one have any ideas
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Cannot Open Display
I have an old desktop that I installed Ubuntu on, the installation went well.
When I rebooted my computer I get the following info on the screen:
change display mode to 1280x.... 60.00Hz
My ...
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Monitor blinks with certain programs
My computer is a HP dv6 with 8gb ram, 500gb hdd and a amd radeon hd 6480 graphics card and dual core cpu. Now here is my problem:
When I try to run some programs such as gucvie and xbmc, the screen ...
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On GUI reset, desktop appears “off” of display
On Ubunutu 12.04 LTS, whenever I reset the GUI (ctl + alt + f7 or when I try to come back from suspend) my desktop appears "off" of my screen. Upon GUI reset, almost my entire laptop screen is black, ...
