Questions related to graphics, in particular getting graphics cards to work. Please tag your exact graphics card version as well if you know what it is.
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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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Why does my HP ProBook 4530s get much hotter?
my laptop details :-
hp probook 4530 s
processor : Intel (R) core (TM) i7-2670 QM - cpu @ 2.20 GHZ (8cpus),~ 2.2 GHZ
memory 8192 MB RAM
about display card (VGA) :
device name : mobile ...
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Apply a visual sharpeness filter to entire desktop?
Is there any way to apply a sharpen effect to my desktop for all applications? This overlay would sharpen all text and images (everything) and constantly be on in real time.
It can be likened to ...
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low graphics mode error only during shutdown
I'm getting the message: "The system is running in low graphics mode. Your screen, graphics card and input device settings could not be detected correctly. You will need to configure these yourself." ...
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13.04 Only booting on occasion
I've been having an awful lot of trouble with Nvidia drivers recently. I've managed to get almost everything working nicely except for the fact that the system only seems to boot when it feels like ...
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Help with installation version 12.10 desktop
I downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 a while back ant tried to install it. I created a USB drive and booted up from the drive. It started installing, showed a long list of code and then just showed a strange ...
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.run to .deb (Driver-Problems [closed]
For some time now, i have been trying to install AMD-Drivers (For notebook) On my computer. I have been following tutorials on, like, noobslab.com, but their program did not detect my drivers (Maby my ...
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“wakeup” doesn't work
Everytime I hit "apply" it says "Unable to set all alarms. Check time preferences"
Whats this?
Can someone help fix this?
Or if any other alarm clock app exists which wakes the laptop from sleep ...
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Screenshot of current window
When I select to "Grab the current window" using the Screenshot app which comes with Ubuntu, the image is b0rked.
The same window captured with "Select area to grab" looks normal:
I am using ...
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Refresh rate not changed on CCSM
I can't change refresh rate of Compiz using CCSM!
After logout-login, it will reset into 50Hz! Any other settings works normally.
Can you help me?
I have Nvidia 310.44 proprietary driver that is ...
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Getting dropped to login-screen
I'm having a serious problem since I updated to 13.04 recently.
I keep getting dropped to the login-screeen. A bit of googling suggested it's probably coused by something crashing my desktop. What ...
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Black screen after booting for the first time (Ubuntu 12.04) [duplicate]
So I've faced this really annoying issue that I can't seem to fix. So, I recently installed a Ubuntu 12.04 and everything went smoothly as you would assume. I created 3 partitions (swap, one for home ...
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Why does Aircrack-ng 1.1 in Ubuntu 13.04 stop my graphic card from working?
When I use airmon-ng in the terminal, my graphic card stops working properly and a fuzzy screen appears, making me go for a hard reboot. I use v. 1.1 of Aircrack-ng in Ubuntu 13.04.
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Please educate me on graphics card [closed]
Recently I decided to change my desktop pc to ubuntu, I had already created a CD a while back (12.04) so I did my windows backups and loaded 12.04 all went well, my sound and graphics card came to ...
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Installing “AMD Catalyst™” [duplicate]
I have recently started using Ubuntu, and I do not know how to install my drivers. I have watched a few tutorials on Ubuntu and also read a few, however, non of them seems to work on my machine.
I ...
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Ubuntu tty1 - 6 blank screen
I cannot access ubuntu console by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1 - F6.
It only shows blank screen (black).
I don't know since when, just found out recently.
I suspect that fglrx driver is the problem (ATI ...
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Integrated Video Card and NVIDIA PCIe on Ubuntu 13.04?
I would like to use both integrated and PCIe NVIDIA video card on my ubuntu box.
The idea is to use the integrated video card to support two displays and the NVIDIA GTX650 for CUDA computing. ...
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Proprietary drivers don't work with AMD Radeon HD 7640G on Ubuntu 12.10
My setup
First off, my apologies if this is a duplicate but I could not find anything specific regarding my graphics card.
So as the title states, I have purchased a new laptop with an AMD Radeon HD ...
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Different Pictures For Items
On my desktop I have alot of different shell files that run a game. I want to replace those ugly shell file looks on your desktop and replace it with the game's logo. Is there a way to do this?
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No desktop after installing graphic drivers?
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 with Wubi. After installing graphic drivers when I reboot and log back in all I can see is black background and cursor isn't moving (but right-click is working), Unity ...
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I can't see the window control buttons in Ubuntu 13.04
I have a problem with the window control buttons in Ubuntu 13.04. As you can see, the buttons are not available in the full screen mode.
If I want to close or minimize a window, I have to make it ...
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Help with NVidia GeForce 9400 GT? [duplicate]
I just got my 13.04 running.
However, I run off an almost ancient graphics card, the NVidia GeForce 9400 GT, and it doesn't support the dimensions for my card, is there any drivers I could possibly ...
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Problems with X server after trying to update drivers
I tried to install new video drivers manually, which failed entirely. I only was able to use a GUI again after doing
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
and
sudo apt-get intsall fglrx
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What is the most sensible graphics driver to install for Nvidia GTX 670MX and Kubuntu 13.04? [duplicate]
Just (re)installed Kubuntu 13.04. I broke my last installation after trying to install Nvidia's graphics driver.
I would like to know whether I should install the Nvidia driver, the bumblebee thing ...
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12.10 installation problem
I have been trying to install 12.10 version of Ubuntu on my 1GB powered 160 GB AMD sempron 64 bit processor, without a graphic card.
The entire procedure seems to occur with ease till the end except ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Black Screen on Boot with gtx 660ti [duplicate]
I've been trying for two weeks to figure out what is the problem. I got PC with ASUS GTX 660 Ti running in SLI and HD 4000 integrated graphics. The problem is, whenever i want to boot on ubuntu, ...
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Ubuntu Black Screen [duplicate]
I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 64bit on my new ASUS Machine. My graphics card in an Intel HD Graphics 4000 card. I am trying to install Ubuntu but when I boot with flash drive and click install, ...
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Hardware Acceleration on HD 7950 Ubuntu 13.04
I have installed a clean install of Ubuntu 13.04, and have attempted several methods of installing the fglrx drivers for the Gigabyte HD 7950 3GB graphics card with no success. Every time the driver ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS only runs with AMD Radeon HD6490 and not Intel HD 3000 [duplicate]
I'm a bit new to Ubuntu 12.04. I have used it for a few months now, but I don't exactly know the commands for Ubuntu.
Also I have been searching for a solution to my problem with my HP ProBook 4730s ...
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No HDMI output when connecting display after boot
I need several servers running Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS to bind framebuffer to HDMI when HDMI is not connected to a display from boot. Now there's only video output when it's connected to a display ...
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Major graphical problems after updating to 13.04
This afternoon I updated from 12.10 to 13.04. Ubuntu 12.10 worked entirely fine. However, when I now try to start Ubuntu 13.04, my graphics go completely wrong. And when I mean wrong, I mean really ...
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X screen is broken after upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10
I had a perfectly working system running Ubuntu 12.04. After upgrading to 12.10, my X screen is "broken" (I don't know how to describe this in words). Some parts of the screen are still legible, but ...
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NVidia (GTX 680) Drivers Ubuntu 13.04 Black Screen
I've been trying for two days now to get my computer running the NVidia drivers. I'm running a GTX 680 and 64 bit architecture.
I've tried multiple things, here's a few:
Additional drivers for my ...
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How to solve a split display using a Radeon HD Graphic card?
I am trying to install a new graphics card on my system and the screen comes up flashing, with the screen split in the middle.
The left edge of the screen meets the right edge of the screen in the ...
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Installation of : AMD Radeon™ HD7790 Catalyst™ Performance Driver under Ubuntu 13.04 [closed]
Has anyone had success in installation of the drivers mentioned in the title ?
(I was unsuccessful and finally installed AMD Radeon HD77xx driver which works OK).
Thanks for your response.
P.S. I ...
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How to solve “the system is running in low graphics mode” in ubuntu 12.04? [duplicate]
I have ubuntu 12.04 installed and it was working fine. But today suddenly it stopped responding, then I restart it and gives a window
The System is running in low graphics mode, Your Screen, graphics ...
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Xlib error when running graphical applications on VNC
I have a server with a Nvidia card (gtx 680) to which I access remotely through VNC (vnc4server). For some graphical applications, I get the following error:
Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on ...
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totally messed up graphics. what can I do?
I got an old celeron from my friend without an OS. I wanted to install Ubuntu. But as soon as I booted into the install menu where it asks for the language the grafhics gets messed up so much that I ...
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How can I fix this graphical error?
I have a Radeon HD 4670 and when I log in the first time to my machine after boot / reboot, I always encounter this picture for a few seconds until everything loads up:
I don't think it's my card's ...
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About Graphic Card [duplicate]
Hello everyone I might have a problem with my laptop graphıcs(samsung p5cs02 tr laptop)
First off all,I have nvidia gt 650m 1 gb graphic card and intel hd 4000 graphics 1 gb
My problem is ubuntu ...
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Problem while installing ATI driver for HD6630m/intel hybrid graphical card ！
I have tried to install ati driver 12.4-13.1 on ubuntu 12.04.2 according to the article
What is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx)? and many other installation ...
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Half of the screen is slightly dimmer using chrubuntu on Acer c7 chromebook [closed]
I have tried using the intel graphics driver installer from this website:
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/intel-releases-linux-graphics-drivers.html
I have gone through quite a few websites for ...
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Problem with installation of ubuntu after after changing my video card with an amd hd 6570
after changing my video card to amd hd 6570 it's not possible to install Ubuntu anymore
On windows (8), everything is just fine. my new video card works perfectly and I have no problem with anything ...
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Video glitch NVIDIA (card: unknown)
I have an ASUS desktop PC which is giving me an annoying video glitch
If I check card model with lspci I get:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0de5 (rev a1)
Apparently my ...
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how do i set up graphics driver for my gt 620m card?
I have tried a lot of stuff to get my card working but all those tryouts have messed up my ubuntu 12.10 install. (on playing a video its slow and in VLC no display... happened after i followed the ...
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Graphical slow response issues?
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 but my Ubuntu is not running smoothly. It is becoming stuck. Is there a problem with my graphic driver? I say this because 1 out of the 2 ATI graphic drivers failed ...
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AMD switchable graphics: integrated outperforms dedicated
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Sony VAIO E14 laptop. I have a AMD switchable GPU Radeon HD 7600M / Intel HD 4000 card. The AMD Catalyst 13.4 driver is installed:
On integrated (IGPU):
fglrxinfo
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Ubuntu 13 change drm_kms_helper poll param
I had ubuntu for 3 years( since version 11).
Every version I had, had the Intel Graphics bug in it's kernel - randomly freezing mouse.
I fixed this problem using "echo N> ...
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Help with boot screen
I want to have a different boot screen when I start my computer right now it just is a black screen saying starting this and starting that blah blah. I really want to have a graphic design like the ...
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Black screen on startup - Ubuntu 13.04 Intel HD 4000 [duplicate]
The title illustrates my problem. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
