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Am I using the Nouveau driver or the proprietary NVIDIA driver?
For a long time, I have used the NVIDIA proprietary driver. In Additional Drivers the NVIDIA driver was activated. However, I just "Removed" that driver because I would like to use the Nouveau driver ...
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Why do the Nouveau drivers work better than the Nvidia ones?
I have a bit of a weirdie here.
My rig uses an Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS in a PCIE x16 slot. Up to about a year ago, no problems with the card. I then started getting random crashes. They got more ...
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How do I force X to use the vesa driver?
I have an old nvidia card not supported anymore (Ti4200Go agp 8x).
The nouveau driver has problems drawing the cursor and shows ugly pictures on the screen.
How do I try the vesa driver? I'm sad the ...
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Geforce video card problems with Ubuntu 11.10
I'm having issues with my video card drivers: GeForce 9600 GT/PCI/SSE2
When installing Nouveau - not getting 3d support and the 2d is really buggy, fuzzy fonts and lots of other stuff. Really ugly.
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Ubuntu 12.04 and Nvidia woes
So I know this has been posted a few times, I have searched and tried options but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install my video card drivers.
Where I stand now: Fresh install of ...
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Screen connected to the 'mini-displayport' doesn't work anymore on an Apple Monitor
I am running Ubuntu on a Mac Pro with a Apple monitor. The machine has a GeForce GT 120 (aka GeForce 9500GT). The DVI output is still working, but the screen connected to the 'mini-displayport' ...
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Why does Xorg take all available CPU power when I run Update Manager? [closed]
I am using Xubuntu 11.04 with the default nouveau driver for nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] graphics controller. Xorg takes all available CPU power, if I run Update Manager in this system; ...
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Is there going to be Twinview ( or alternative) implemented for nouveau?
as I've had heavy issues with nvidia driver regarding performance of basic X window operations (window moving, resizing, scrolling). I switched to nouveau driver. But I lost the possibility of having ...
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Switch between nvidia-current and nouveau without a reboot?
Is it possible to switch between Nvidia's BLOB and Nouveau video drivers on-the-fly?
I think I need to be able to:
[✓] Unload nvidia
[✓] Unload nouveau
[✕] Restore the console ...
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What sort of information do I need to send a bug report to nouveau developers?
I'm aware that nouveau on PPC is "known to work" more than "rigorously tested" but I'm having issues with certain OpenGL 2D programs (not 3D) where the colors are completely off.
While it could be an ...
