Questions related to systems with an integrated and discrete video card.
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How to install the Nvidia Drivers
I just ordered the Nvidia GTX 560 card, which should arrive tomorrow. I have a dilemma, though. Should I keep using the driver which is available in "additional drivers" in Ubuntu (10.10), or should I ...
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How do I get AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics drivers to work?
On Ubuntu 12.04 my Sony Vaio VPCSE with Intel® HD Graphics 3000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 6630M worked fine with the Catalyst Control Center version 12.6. Also the switching between integrated and discrete ...
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Can't install ATI proprietary drivers in 12.10
I have a laptop with ATI Radeon 6770M HD Hybrid graphics card. In Ubuntu 12.04, I installed the fglrx driver through "additional drivers" and it worked. (I can even switch GPUs). But in the new Ubuntu ...
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How do I turn off the Radeon GPU ono my HP Pavilion DM4?
I have a HP DM4 Beats Edition running Ubuntu 11.10. The HP Pavillion runs on-board Intel graphics as well as Radeon GPU.
From what I have read it appears that the Radeon GPU is draining my battery ...
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How to re-configure graphics from Intel integrated to Intel / ATI switchable?
Minimum goal: Ability to switch between the graphic cards without drivers re-installation. Restarting computer in the process is fine.
There are lots of 'how to get switchable graphics to work' ...
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Fglrx causes serious bug-black screen!
I downloaded newest driver from Ati site and installed it...
Now at start-up I see a black screen and message:
"Your screen,graphics card,and input device settings could not be
detected ...
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How do I turn off the discrete card on boot when there's no option in the BIOS?
I have quite old laptop - MSI CX620MX. It has two graphic cards - integrated Intel card and ATI Mobility Radeon HD545v.
I have installed WIN7 and ubuntu 12.04. I would like to know, how can I disable ...
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Could not resolve archive.ubuntu.com when reinstalling xorg
I managed to uninstall xserver-xorg completely, and now all I see when booting Ubuntu is a blank screen. I've tried reinstalling it through shell prompt (recovery mode) but every time I get errors ...
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How do I get ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 + Integrated Intel HD to work?
I have a HP TouchSmart tm2150es with hybrid graphics (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 + Integrated Intel HD). It comes shipped with W7 Home Premium 64 bits. It has an Insyde BIOS.
I have certain ...
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vga_switcheroo and Intel HD 3000 on Ubuntu 12.04
I'm trying to get vga_switcheroo to enable my integrated Intel HD 3000 instead of my ATI card. My problem is that there is no vgaswitcheroo directory in /sys/kernel/debug/ on my system.
> grep -i ...
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How to enable to work only one card on my laptop?
I have a laptop with Intel HD and Nvidia GPU video cards and I have a problem with installing drivers for the second. They mess everything up. Unity don't want to start, because GLX MISSING ON DISPLAY ...
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Max VRAM supported by open source ATI radeon
I have an ATI HD6370 with dedicated 1G running on Ubuntu 11.10. Following is the output from dmesg
sourajit@sourajit:/etc/X11$ sudo dmesg | grep drm
[ 5.149765] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 ...
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HP Pavilion g6 1190sm laptop has overheat/hibernation/graphics issues
Every time I reboot or shutdown my laptop, while the laptop is booting again I get a screen (before loading the OS) that HP discovered overheating and system went into hibernation. But the point is ...
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How to fix high power consumption on a hybrid-graphics laptop
I have a hybrid Radeon 6600M/Intel laptop, and I've installed the Ubuntu beta 2, hoping that I'd get a better battery life but I still seem to be getting high power consumption.
With radeon ...
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vgaswitcheroo not selecting discrete card
I have a Dell 5110 laptop that has hybrid graphics. I have tried using vgaswitcheroo to some limited success, but I have still not been able to select my discrete ATI 6470 card. I use the following ...
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Just ran some updates, broke system and stuck in Unity 2d
I just installed 25 updates. In them were the raring graphics stack and kernel 3.5.25. I rebooted back and noticed I was now in Unity 2d. This behaves much slower than 3d did and when I tried to log ...
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Ubuntu and the HP Envy 15t-3200
Could someone post a tutorial on making Ubuntu 13.04 work with the HP Envy 15t-3200?
I own this laptop, and have had to use Windows so far. :(
There are several problems (touchpad, sound, etc), but ...
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Acer Aspire 8951G Nvidia Optimus and HDMI issues
After loooong searches it seems that linux users are pretty much screwed when it comes to Optimus.
Does anyone know of a workaround other than trying to flash the BIOS with the hack that will show an ...
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hybrid-dump for VDPAU accelerated video playing on Ubuntu 11.10 with bumblebee 3.0?
I am trying to run hybrid-dump for VDPAU accelerated video playing on Ubuntu 11.10 with Bumblebee 3.0 installed and running. But following the instructions in the URL below, I can't get mplayer with ...
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Can't revert to the previous state of graphic experience
This might seem so similar to many other posts regarding Nvidia Optimus Graphic Cards troubles and the pain it inflicts on its Linux users but my question is actually simply how to go back to my last ...
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How to use integrated Intel graphics instead of Nvidia graphics on MacBook Pro?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit on MacBook Pro 15" 2010 (MacBookPro6,2) and I would like to use the integrated Intel graphics instead of the dedicated Nvidia graphics Ubuntu boots with on this ...
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3+ monitors, nvidia + intel graphics
I have seen lots of different posts on this issue, but I cannot figure out what to do.
I hope we can collect the available information in one place, so that they can be useful for others.
Is it ...
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Compatibility of new Acer Aspire M3 with Nvidia GT 640M Kepler GPU with hybrid graphics?
A new Acer Aspire M3 with Nvidia GT 640M Kepler GPU (Nvidia Optimus) has been announced:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/13/2868854/acer-aspire-timeline-ultra-m3-announce-kepler-gt-640M
[...] the ...
