Questions tagged [nvidia]
Questions related to the NVIDIA graphics and motherboard chipsets and the related drivers.
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16.04 Nvidia proprietary driver problems
On 16.04 xubuntu fresh install, I have an Nvidia Gtx 980 and an apple 30" 2560x1600 display, after installing proprietary nvidia drivers, I get two problems, the first, I can't log in during the ...
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"monitor brightness down" key resets brightness before lowering it
My monitor brightness down key resets my brightness before lowering it, effectively leaving me at near max brightness. I do not experience any problems with the brightness up key.
I'm using a Dell ...
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Mouse is blinking/flickering at my built in monitor with an external monitor, please help
I am using a Thinkpad W530, and due to my works, I need to use an external monitor.
I am using nouveau and nvidia-prime to switch between intel and nvidia adapter.
After I connected and switched on ...
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Using CUDA with nvidia optimus in Intel mode (14.04)
I'm using a Thinkpad T430 with a NVS 5400M and an integrated Intel HD card.
Since it's not possible to use cuda-gdb when the nvidia card is used for video output, I tried to use CUDA while in Intel ...
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black tty screens
I get black tty screens when I hit Ctrl+Alt+F1. I already read all other similar questions but I can't seem to find a suitable solution.
Here is my setup.
I have a fairly new laptop (Jan 2013, Asus ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 flickering and disappearing screen
Running Skylake/Nvidia GTX 950 on a clean install. I'm no expert at all and I haven't got a clue what to do. I've tried various things but nothing works and the guides are often not clear enough for ...
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How do I update to Ubuntu kernel 3.13.0 on 12.04 LTS without breaking the Nvidia graphics driver?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 "LTS" on a Lenovo W530 (Nvidia Optimus architecture) and updated the kernel to 3.13.0-32-generic as the version of the kernel I was running was going out of support, ...
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Poor boot-screen after interrupted install
My install was interrupted because of a power cut. I recovered from it, using the command
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Now, I get a violet boot screen like normal, but the progress bar is shown as 4 ...
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How to connect my Ubuntu 18.04 to TV by HDMI
I tried to connect my PC to TV by HDMI but it does not work. Ubuntu does not even connect or read the HDMI, when I connect the wire, nothing changes!
I installed Nvidia X Server but again it does not ...
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Set Large Text from Accessibility for only one screen
I am using ubuntu-22.10 with Wayland. I am facing issues setting the display settings of my laptop and monitors. I am using two external monitors and my laptop display. Their highest resolution is as ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) does not detect higher refresh rates on external monitors
Premise: like many other users, I have also encountered the following issue which has already been documented here: Can't use Wayland with Nvidia 510 drivers on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS although I am ...
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Can't use OpenGL 3.3+ in WSL (Windows 11)
Both of my GPU and CPU support up to OpenGL 4.6 and my drivers are up-to-date. However, my Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL only supports 3.3 . Here's what glxinfo says:
glxinfo | grep "OpenGL"
OpenGL ...
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No /usr/local/cuda/ directory after Cuda installation
I have installed Cuda with this command:
$ sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit gcc-10
and then checked the version with:
$ nvcc --version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (...
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Firefox 89 Hardware Acceleration on Ubuntu 21.04 with Nvidia 460 drivers
I can't seem to get Hardware Acceleration for Firefox working correctly with the closed source Nvidia 460 drivers.
Playing video (ie youtube) stutters often with dropped frames. I have an i7 6700k ...
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Benchmarking a GPU on a node with no display or monitor
How can I benchmark a GPU on a machine that has no display connected to it?
I am provisioning VMs with different types of GPUs. I want to benchmark the GPUs in order to compare them. But they're (...
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Nvidia drivers installation error (Package nvidia-dkms-460 is not configured yet)
I'm trying to install nvidia drivers on my Ubuntu 20.10 system. The problem is that they can't be installed. I have this problem for more than 14 days and I can't resolve it.
When I try to install ...
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Why does Settings | About say "Mesa Intel" instead of "Nvidia" when using Wayland?
The Graphics section of the Settings | About page under Wayland in Ubuntu 20.04 is confusing me.
It claims that I am using Intel graphics, while all other system information indicates that I am using ...
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What is the difference between "NVIDIA driver metapackage" and "NVIDIA binary Xorg driver"?
I am running Gnome Desktop 3.36.3 on X11 11 (X.org version 1.20.8) on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on a ThinkPadP72 with an NVIDIA Quadro P4200.
I notice in Software & Updates > Additional Drivers that I ...
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Issues in 20.04 with KDE/Plasma and nvidia cards
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, all up to date, with KDE/Plasma and nvidia Quadro P620 card.
I have two monitors set up with two DELL U2717D monitors.
NVIDIA Driver is 450.80.02
My computer is always ...
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How to set up dual display with dual graphics card on Ubuntu 20.04?
I'm setting up PC with a pair of GeForce GTX 1070 (Both ASUS TURBO 1070) cards and a Philips 246E FHD monitors connected to each via DP(GPU-0) and HDMI(GPU-1).
PC config:
DELL WorkStation Precision ...
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Cannot install Ubuntu 20 on laptop with windows 10 and NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2080
I have laptop with NVidia Geforce RTX 2080 and Windows 10 installed, and I would like to install second OS, latest Ubuntu 20, but I am not able.
Black Screen after launching Grub option "Ubuntu&...
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NVIDIA settings do not persist
I have just moved to Ubuntu 18.04 from 16.04 and am having problems with my NVIDIA settings. They do not persist if I restart the desktop or reboot the pc.
I've tried
sudo nvidia-xconfig
Which ...
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No HDMI audio Ubuntu 20.04
I've just installed Ubuntu 20.04 in a desktop computer connected via hdmi with an external BenQ GW2480E monitor. I have perfect video display but no audio output at all. I have checked a lot of ...
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Nvidia GPU giving poor performance on 20.04
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 with RTX 2060 on my laptop.
Nvidia driver version - 440
My problem is that whenever I select NVIDIA (Performance Mode) in the PRIME PROFILES, my Ubuntu starts lagging. My ...
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Is it possible to have two monitors with different scales?
I have currently two monitors :
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 6400 x 2160, maximum 32767 x 32767
DP-2 connected primary 3840x2160+2560+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 600mm x 340mm
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Nvidia GPU is not workin on Ubuntu 18.04.3
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.3 with pantheon desktop, I installed the Nvidia drivers with the following command:
$ sudo apt install nvidia-driver-440
After the process was completed I restarted my pc.
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Ubuntu won't boot. Frozen cursor in the top left
I have been having difficulties with my Ubuntu installation.
It will no longer boot and shows a frozen cursor in the top left corner, I have checked many websites and have tried stuff like nomodeset, ...
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ACPI BIOS Error and Ubuntu Freezing 18.04.3
I keep getting this error when Ubuntu boots
ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure Creating [_SB.PCI0.XHC.RHUB.SS10. AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20181213/dswload2-324
Then, if I click on settings or Mozilla it ...
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Glxinfo shows Mesa but I'm using Nvidia drivers
I am trying to update my GPU driver in order to use OpenGL 4+ (Ubuntu 18.04). I have installed the recommended Nvidia driver, however when I run
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
I still get the following ...
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NVIDIA: GPU exception occured durint X server init
My GPU is the GTX870M. I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04. All I did was:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
nvidia-xconfig
reboot
It installed the nvidia-...
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4K resolution videos lag
I have Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.2 LTS installed on an Acer F15 F5-573-70EB[Here] laptop with an i7 CPU, NVIDIA GTX 950m GPU, and 16GB RAM. I connect it to a Philips 4K HDR TV.
Before installing NVIDIA's ...
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VLC Can't Play UHD Video Shot From my Phone?
When I try to play video shot from my phone in 4K, the player just stops at one of the first frames.
My Samsung Note 9 Rear Camera shoots in 16:9 UHD at 60FPS and uses the HEVC codec.
When I ...
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cuda unmet libraries but not going to be installed
I run into problems with cuda/nvida installation dependencies. Here's my nvcc --version
$ nvcc --version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2015 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on ...
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Black screen on detected second display on Ubuntu 18.04
I recently updated my laptop to Ubuntu 18.04 from 16.04. When I tried to use my external monitor with it for the first time, everything worked well and I set the external monitor as the primary ...
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Black screen after wake up and wrong resolution with the fix
I'm trying to fix the Nouveau driver bug. When I wake up my computer from sleep, the screen remain black, no image. So I added the nouveau.modeset=0 in the grub file and after a reboot, the screen ...
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Brightness fn keys not working new HP gaming laptop
I know This has been asked to death. I have dealt with it before on other laptops.
And I have tried al these combinations in /et/default/grub and run a sudo update-grub reboot, test, fail.
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Reverting to nouveau in ubuntu 18.04 doesn't work as expected
Since I had driver problems with nouveau on my Thinkpad (flickering external monitor on docking station) I switched to nvidia-390 and also to nvidia-396 both without success (didn't even recognize the ...
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When will NVidia fully support Wayland (Ubuntu 17.10)?
I was wondering if there is an ETA on when NVidia will fully support Wayland (if not already)?
I have the latest proprietary driver installed (GeForce 940M 390.25 driver) however, I have to set the ...
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Nvidia-smi command not found after installing using CUDA Toolkit
I have installed Nvidia CUDA Toolkit version 9.1 which includes the drivers as well and I am able to get output from:
$ nvcc --version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2017 ...
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Performance of nvidia MX150 with Wayland, Ubuntu 17.10
I'm running a laptop with an nvidia mx150 graphics card on Ubuntu 17.10. I noticed my video was very slow while playing video. So, I started looking at the video driver, and running glmark2 to ...
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Xserver error: no screens found(EE)
I'm a newb to all of this and have no idea how to fix this problem.
I'm trying to use Xorg on ubuntu 16.04 on my AWS server by running these commands.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y ...
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nVidia X Settings does not launch- Ubuntu 17.10
(specs Lenovo U-31
Processor
Intel Core i7-5500U (Intel Core i7)
Graphics adapter
NVIDIA GeForce 920M - 2048 MB, Core: 954 MHz, Memory: 900 MHz, DDR3
also includes the typical Intel Graphics 5500)
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Geforce 940MX not working after proprietary driver install
I have a laptop with integrated Intel GPU and GeForce 940MX.
With nouveau driver glxgears is working fine, but with proprietary nvidia drivers isn't:
$ glxgears
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-...
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Graphics card treats dual monitor as one desktop - need to split into two desktops
I'll include a pic of what I mean to clarify:
That very wide monitor on the right is actually two physical monitors. The graphics card just treats them as one monitor.
Obviously this is pretty ...
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Using multiple GPU's in Ubuntu 16?
I have a question I have been researching for days on. I have a MSI z97 gaming 5 board with 7 PCI slots. All the slots work fine for GPU's as I have an identical board with 7 AMD GPU's running. The ...
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Disable One GPU with NVIDIA CUDA 8.0 on Ubuntu 16.04
I have been having trouble with my GPUs lately. I just did a clean wipe of my machine and installed Ubuntu 16.04 and CUDA 8.0 on it, hoping that would fix the problem. However, I still get errors. ...
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Nvidia-smi low GPU Utilization
I have a Titan X and have been running the Breakout simulation for over two days now and it's only 7% through training and nvidia-smi is showing that it's only using 4-5%. The README.md says that it ...
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Easy way to switch between Nouveau and Nvidia proprietary driver
I have a laptop with an NVidia GPU, installed along the default Intel Graphics card. Wishing to get the best performance for gaming, I switched to the proprietary NVidia drivers. However, having to ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Nvidia Prime - Resume from suspend to black screen
laptop = acer aspire
cpu = intel i3-4050U
gpu = nvidia 840m
Vanilla offline install. On first boot I do updates. I reboot again and then install nvidia 361 & nvidia-prime. I reboot again.
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After upgrading to 16.04 keyboard and mouse lock up at random times
After upgrading to 16.04 (from 14.04) keyboard and mouse lock up at random times, and then the only thing that I can do is to manually power cycle the machine.
My machine is an older ACER with dual ...
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