Questions related to the Nvidia graphics and motherboard chipsets and the related drivers.
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After upgrade to 10.6.32-47 kernel, video performance degraded [closed]
I have old machine with P4 and 1G Ram. It has GeForce FX5500 nvidia graphic on AGP.
I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 on it, with XFCE.
I was happy to use it in normal way till last week, I have done ...
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Laptop Nvidia Bumblebee clarification
So this is partly clarification (to help future users) and partly questions to make sure I understand what's going on.
Recently attempted to make the switch from MacOSX to Ubuntu as I can't afford ...
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Higher display resolution on Acer 5755g
I am using Acer Aspire 5755g with NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M (2gb) and Ubuntu 13.04. The resolution set by default is 1366x768 and it is the highest possible to choose. I would like to use bigger ...
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Is SLI in Nouveau and Nvidia drivers going somewhere? [closed]
It seems that SLI is not working properly under Linux at the moment, at all!
I haven't tested, but in recent forum posts, people deem it unusable and suggest instead single GPUs for the time being. ...
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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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Ubuntu - Keyboard not working + strange screen when changing user [duplicate]
Yesterday, I installed ubuntu with wubi, and it went fine, but I decided I didnt like unity, so I uninstalled ubuntu. I tried all other ubuntu variations, none really succeeded to install :( live cd's ...
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Video tearing on flash fullscreen
I had some trouble with video tearing (using Nvidia GeForce 560Ti, with 310.44 nvidia driver), but could solve it by setting refresh rate from 50 to 120 in compiz settings manager -> composite.
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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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Installing NVIDIA driver causes black screen (750M)
I have a dual boot set up on a Lenovo Ideapad Y500 with NVIDIA 750M and I am having problems installing the graphics cards. I have made sure to install both linux-headers-generic and linux-source, and ...
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How to install Precise Pangolin as a second OS on a PC with a RAID?
I want to install Ubuntu as a second operating system beside Windows XP SP3.
My main PC has a mainboard based on the nVidia nForce4 architecture with an onboard (mainboard) nVidia RAID controller, 4 ...
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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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Stuck in some kind of test pattern loop after installing NVidia Drivers
I just installed the latest Ubuntu and then enabled the restricted drivers for NVIDIA
Once I rebooted, the system starts but then enters some kind of graphical test pattern loop (Blue, Black, White, ...
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desktop and untiy disappeared on 13.04 after installing nvidia tools; i installed nvidia drivers in non nvidia GPU system
i installed nvidia drivers in non nvidia GPU system to emulate CUDA programs. my big mistake. please help to get my icons unity back.thanks in advance
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NVIDIA server settings showing wrong values
I upgraded to 13.04 and I went into NVIDIA server settings and it is showing the wrong display and the wrong resolution. How do I fix this ?
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Ubuntu 13.04 upgrade : problems with NVIDIA graphic drivers
I have a made a clean upgrade from 11.04 to 13.04 in my Acer Desktop with graphic nVidia GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i/integrated/SSE2.
With 11.04 I had no problems.
Now if I use Nouveau graphic drivers ...
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Move Video Driver from Live CD to Hard Drive Installation
My 12.04 installation on an Acer E360 with Nvidia graphics works fine from the live CD but the graphics driver doesn't work when the system is installed. Is there a way to copy the driver from the ...
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How to manually set a special resolution?
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit for the past short time. After a screen upgrade, I can't use/set the right resolution.
My old display setting was three 17" of 1280x1024 behind a Matrox TripleHead2GO ...
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Backlight Fix in Ubuntu with MacBook 6,1?
I recently installed Ubuntu to dual boot on my MacBook. However, the brightness feature does not work! It only happened after I changed the display driver. I am using Ubuntu 13.04
lspci:
00:00.0 ...
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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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Updated then black screen after boot [duplicate]
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 today. I updated everything (no adjustments, just what it suggested me) and every time I try to start Ubuntu (dual boot with Windows 7) it sort of crashes. I see 'Ubuntu' ...
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nvidia-frickle with hybrid chipset is now over finally? [closed]
no question - linux-headers have to be installed first suiting to your installed kernel.
in case of hybrid-chipsets like CUDA with Optimus this package does NOT work:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.51.run
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How do I get a higher resolution than 1280 X 800 in Ubuntu 13.04
I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1520 that has an nVidia G84M graphics card
I have followed the instructions from this link
How to install the Nvidia Drivers
and I installed the ...
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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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X server fails with KDE apps in Ubuntu 13.04 after last update
I've used the latest proprietary nVidia drivers (313) when an update came and broke my desktop - initially it switched to some other drivers than proprietary (my second monitor wasn't used with it), ...
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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 can I get the Nvidia driver to drive my projector at 1280x720?
I recently purchased a BenQ W600+ projector that I'd like to use with my ThinkPad T410 with Nvidia graphics running Ubuntu 12.10. The native resolution of the projector is 1280x720 (i.e. 720p), but I ...
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Screen backlight is Disabled After Installing Nvidia GeForce 9600m GT Drivers
since several weeks ago, I am in the quest for try to fix the back-light control on my Sony VGN-AW220j With Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT, but until date no luck after try so many recipes and fixes from ...
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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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Can't install Ubuntu on Windows 8 [duplicate]
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So I'm trying to install Ubuntu... but it won't install.
Currently I'm using Windows 8 and I have 2 HDD.
On 1 HDD I've installed Windows 8 and using it, primary partition, but the other HDD is ...
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Problem loading Nvidia driver
I have a hybrid laptop Lenovo T420. I have disabled Optimus in BIOS and I'm only using descrete graphic (Nvidia) now. My Nvidia GFX worked before i upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04, but now the driver wont ...
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Laptop heating, can't switch on Wi-Fi, can't to connect l2tp internet
Hello everyone I am Windows 8 user, sorry if my speech are poor or understandable, I'm from Russia.
So..Yesterday I install my first Ubuntu 13.04 for a chance and I get 3 problem at once!
First: my ...
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How to decide on the right Nvidia driver based on the Linux Kernel version?
After trying to install the Nvidia drivers and got them working and then got them broken, I would like to check one important thing:
One of the main problems I run into was "Kernel version and Nvidia ...
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Black Screen on Login
I have serached around, but no fix could help me. Here's what happened:
A few days ago, for no reason, I couldn't see the login screen on my Ubuntu 12.04. nor do anything but reboot using ...
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Does the new nVidia Optimus / RandR 1.4 stuff work for desktops?
I read this not long ago http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM0NzE
and was wondering if it would work on a desktop with displays connected via an Intel HD graphics output on the ...
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Able to adjust screen brightness on Live CD, broken after install
I am trying to use Xubuntu 13.04 on a Macbook Pro 6-2 (mid 2010). That's a Nvidia GeForce GT 300m.
I'm positive this is a video drive issue. So what I've done so far:
Tried installing the latest ...
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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 to fix grafic tearing on nVidia cards?
I've just installed Ubuntu GNOME 13.04 on my nvidia powered laptop and I'm experiencing some ugly grafic tearing when watching videos or scrolling pages in firefox for instance...
Vsync's activated ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Unity launcher and status bar dissappeared after installing additional drivers [duplicate]
I have tried to use additional graphics drivers on Lenovo T530 ubuntu 12.10 laptop. Actually those drivers have not installed correctly. After restarting my machine, ubuntu launcher and status bar has ...
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Steam and Nvidia/Optimus/crashes
I would like to share a solution to a problem i've managed to reproduce on two systems with two different setups, the first setup (Will be refered to as A) was an nvidia optimus setup with ubuntu ...
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can't get the resolution right even after installing the nvidia driver
I'm sure my problem might seem simple to many of ya'all but for some reasons I'm stuck with getting the right resolution for my newly installed ubuntu 10.04-64bit and I need some help.
First of all, I ...
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Mouse trails on monitor connected to nVidia videocard in multi monitor setup on Ubuntu 13.04
I have a problem on my PC w/ Ubuntu 13.04 (fresh virgin installation as of yesterday)
My Hardware spesifications:
Asus P8Z77-M Pro mainboard
Asus GeForce GT210 PCIe videocard
2x Philips 24" ...
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WARNING: The OpenGL rendering context obtained on X display
I've installed bumblebee with this tutorial
http://eternalvoid.net/tutorials/linux-optimus-gt650m/
and when I try optirun i've got black screen & this:
$ optirun glxspheres
Polygons in scene: ...
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Failing to initialize Nvidia GPU
I have installed nvidia-current on 12.04 and bumblebee according to these links http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-The-Latest-Nvidia-Driver-on-Ubuntu-12-04-295542.shtml AND ...
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MacBook Pro, Retina (10,1) and Ubuntu 13.04 - Nvidia Resolution Issue
I have been using Xubuntu 12.04 LTS on a slightly older iMac, dual booting it. And it has been a mostly smooth experience.
Getting the same was really tricky on one of those new MacBook Pro laptops. ...
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Installing propriety Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 13.04
I have a 2012 Alienware x51 and I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on it with the hdmi plugged into my Nvidia 660 graphics card. It installed the nouveau drivers by default and I have no option in the ...
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problem in resolution on ubuntu 12.10
optimize resolution in my monitor is 1600x1900 .60 .
but just 3 resolution and best of it , is 1152x864 .
I have test every way but not work .
my graphic is nvidia gt610m .
I use of xrandr & ...
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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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How to get Nvidia Graphic card to work on Thinkpad T430?
I installed Ubuntu Linux on my Thinkpad T430 and everything works until last week.
Because then I bought a new monitor with a higher screen resolution than full hd.
So I cannot run the monitor with a ...
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Question about Purging Nvidia Driver
Does purging Nvidia driver on Ubuntu also purges the driver from the windows? I'm using a dual-boot in my system and I don't know if it will affect the other os or not. Thanks for the reply.
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Nouveau driver on Ubuntu 13.04 freeze and I get nouveau dri failed to idle
Ok so I want to like Unity I really do but this is very annoying with default nouveau driver I get constant gpu lockups and I have to manually reboot. If I install nvidia drivers it doesn't freeze ...
