Questions related to the Nvidia graphics and motherboard chipsets and the related drivers.
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No display detected after installing bumblebee on Dell XPS 15z
So I've been having quite a bit of issues with Ubuntu on this laptop. When I tried to install 12.04 a while ago I never even got the external monitor to work at all and gave up for a few months. So ...
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how to adjust screen brightness and contrast on desktop
Just moved to ubuntu from windows ...
I have NVIDIA card 8400GS
and my screen is LG 1970HR
on windows I was able to adjust the screen whenever I wanted to.
(thanks to LG screen software and/or ...
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is it possible to increase nvidia gfx card memory with “graphics aperture size”?
so, I remember long ago about a BIOS option "graphics aperture size".
I wonder, as I cant find it on my BIOS, if there is some way to let my nvidia gfx card 512MB use some of my ram memory to ...
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NVIDIA GeForce drivers break Unity in Ubuntu 13.04 [duplicate]
I've just installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 13.04, and tried installing the NVIDIA drivers for my Geforce GT540M.
This just completely broke my Unity. After rebooting I can login, but it just shows my ...
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Getting nvidia GEFORCE GT 635M to work in 13.04
I tried installing nvidia drivers in 12.10 via x-swat repository, and primus, and noveau, and a million things i found on the net and everything just broke the system, until I finally got bumblebee to ...
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Primusrun doesn't seem to use my NVidia card
I have been installing bumblebee and primus in order to play a few game on my laptop. When I test them with respectively optirun glxspheres primusrun glxspheres, I see an adequate increase of the ...
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13.04 Unity troubles related to Nvidia Optimus
I know this bug in variations has been discussed in other questions, but none of the solutions work...
I'm running Ubuntu on a lenovo ThinkPad T420s. It has a Nvidia Optimus discrete graphics card.
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Dual monitor connected to hdmi port not detecting on Dell Vostro 3750
I am using Dell Vostro 3750 laptop with 2 monitors. OS Kubuntu 13.04
1 monitor I connected with VGA and it is working fine. But another monitor connected to HDMI port is not detected. I connected ...
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Ubuntu 13 fails to boot after Live-DVD install
I just installed from the DVD-ISO image over Ubuntu 12. System will not boot from HD. I can get grub2 menu and have tried the nomodeset option. However, even in recovery mode, the system hangs when ...
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Install NVIDIA Drivers
I installed Ubuntu 13.04, but after the reboot theres only a black screen with the blinking bar on the top left. I found, that one possible solution is that the video drivers are not installed, so i ...
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Performance issue with UBUNTU
Hello I have installed Ubuntu on an OCZ SSD 240GB because I wanted lightning performance and excellent response times. This is the case when I log in everything is great. After a while of using though ...
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Nvidia driver installed successfully, but not activated
My Ubuntu 12.04 only shows up black screen when starting up some days ago suddenly. Since I can desktop through recovery mode (resume in recovery mode, and the resolution is wrong), I believe there's ...
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Graphics Driver - Low Grapich Error [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 13.04 (latest version)
now I try to install graphics driver.
I have followed this instruction How to Install AMD ATI Radeon Graphics HD 6770M on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit.
I tried 4 times ...
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Additional drivers for my NVIDIA 680GTX not showing up in the additional drivers tool
Did a fresh 13.04 install "Additional drivers" doesnt show anything at all.
Was working fine on Ubuntu 12.04.
I have 2 nvidia cards installed 680GTX and 460GTX both detected on lspci, currently my ...
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Monitor no signal during boot
I've used Ubuntu for years and never had this problem. I used Unetbootin and Universal USB Installer to make a live USB of Ubuntu 13.04 64bit. When I boot via live USB, purple screen appears as usual, ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Installation Error
I have installed Ubuntu 13.04, but upon finalizing the installation, they system replaced some files and it now will not allow me to open any application. It also will not allow me to send an error ...
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Replacing the video driver when the current driver does not work at all
I put Ubuntu 12.10 on an Inspiron 5150 with the NVidia GeForce FX5200. It was fully operational with Windows XP Home when I started. It now boots to a black screen with a mouse cursor. I formatted ...
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problem with lxde having ubuntu 12.10 with gnome
i had installed lxde through software center but my desktope environment did not changed to lxde but at shut down it is showing Lubuntu-12.10.but in system monitor it showed as Ubuntu Release 12.10 ...
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After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04, should I stick with NVIDIA 310 driver or should I change it to 313 driver?
After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04 (64-bit edition), I checked the "Additional drivers" configuration and I noticed a new 313 NVIDIA driver entry. As a Steam user, I had previously changed from the open ...
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13.04, 12.10, 12.04 NVIDIA drivers do not work whatsoever
I have been using (or trying to use) Ubuntu for a while now. I cannot for the life of me get any proprietary NVIDIA drivers to work in 12.04, 12.10 or 13.04. I've tried every method posted on these ...
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Upgrade Ubuntu 12.10 >>> Ubuntu 13.04 Black Screen Boot Failed with Nvidia Geforce Gt630 WHY?
1) I downloaded the iso of ubuntu desktop 64bit.
2) I burned the iso.
3) I tried to start the installation of ubuntu 13.04 from DVD
Black screen Black screen Black screen
4) ...
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How install Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu 13.04? [duplicate]
Today I performed fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04.
After this I tried to install Nvidia graphics driver.
I used 2 methods:
How do I install extra drivers?
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Primus failed to load libraries in Raring
Bumblebee is working fine. But primus is giving me an issue.
vblank_mode=0 primusrun glxspheres
primus: fatal: failed to load any of the libraries: ...
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Graphic card amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-linux-x86.x86_64 [duplicate]
after i have install new version i want to install the graphics driver
( amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-linux-x86.x86_64 )
that i already have its source but every time i try to install it open ...
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No audio through HDMI - nvidia gfx
I have read a lot of posts about this, mainly it is people with ATI cards or people that havnt got the option to choose HDMI audio. But it just ain't my problem, afaik.
I have installed my Graphics ...
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3D Graphics Acceleration
Grphics acceleration is disabled in Ubuntu. I went to Software & Updates and opened the Additional Drivers tab and was presented with a list of drivers, which one am I supposed to install?
Why is ...
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Bumblebee issue with 13.04
Bumblebee cannot access my GPU
optirun -vv glxspheres
[ 1731.443943] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[ 1731.445149] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.1 starting...
[ 1731.445191] ...
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Ubuntu 13.04. fail to start after installing nvidia drivers (Vostro laptop)
Everything worked fine in 13.04 Ubuntu but then i installed nvidia-drivers-103 Now it does not load into login screen at all. I see blank purple screen during start-up and then just blank black screen ...
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Google Chrome black screen tearing
When I open OMGUbuntu site(or some other page), I get screen tearing http://ubuntuone.com/53v8xOJexIu1eDqS87RvZ8
Also sometimes videos doesn't work. Sometimes I can watch just fullscreen, sometimes ...
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Why does vblank_mode improve framerate drastically in benchmarks?
I am messing around trying to find the best graphics solution for my Laptop with Optimus Nvidia. (ASUS K55VD)
I've got bumblebeed running and i use optirun when i want to improve graphics ...
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How to get the oBacklight solution to brightness problem working?
I can set the backlight using xrandr (although the mouse pointer stays sharply bright) but If I suspend the laptop, after waking it up it is on max brightness again.
I have a Dell 17 L702x and I have ...
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System Heating Up
I have samsung laptop i7. It has Nvidia 650M 2GB graphics card installed. When I turn on My pc it gets heated up within 15 minutes and stops working. How can I possibly remove this problem?
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Ubuntu 10.04 32 Bit VMWare
Attempting to configure my video cards, GTX 560 TI x 2 SLI Mode for use of CUDA processing power for use with Pyrit. I am unable to install the driver I downloaded as it says I don't have a supported ...
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Is it safe to install the Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu 13.04? [duplicate]
In 12.10, the installation of the Nvidia driver was risky and nerve-wrecking. Fortunately, I was able to find some instructions to get it to work, but unfortunately not until after borking an ...
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Logging out leaves the display in a garbled state, unable to restart X, or switch to text console
I have a problem with Ubuntu 12.04. I am running on a Zotac Z68ITX motherboard, which has both a NVidia graphic card GT430 onboard, and a Intel integrated one on chip. I set the PGE/PCIEx option in ...
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open source nvidia drivers memory usage
I am basic user of computer (GIMP, Writer, Impress, Krusader) so advanced 3D features of my NVIDIA graphic card Geforce 9400 G is not needed.
Both Nouveau and Nvidia proprietary drivers are working ...
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nVidia Driver and optimus [duplicate]
i have an asus K53DS Laptop running Ubuntu 12.10 and windows 7, with an intel hd 3000 and and nVidia 610M. I have tried both the additional drivers utility and sudo apt-get install nvidia-current. ...
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Trouble with CUDA 5.0 on a laptop
I am currently trying to run a program called MC-GPU V1.3 ( https://code.google.com/p/mcgpu/ ), on my laptop.
First off, let me explain my situation.
Using a Lenovo y400 Laptop with Nvidia 650m
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color calibration and 3d acceleration
I am a photographer and I am looking at moving to Ubuntu in the near future. I also enjoy playing games. I am planning on building a new computer specifically for Ubuntu.
I've been doing some testing ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 screen tearing
I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on my PC and it seems to suffer from screen tearing. I have the latest nVidia driver, but everything is messed up.
My BIOS isn't at the correct resolution, and GRUB ...
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12.10; NVidia 285; Gnome 3; Renderer shows Gallium
I know there have been a number of posts/articles about getting NVIDIA to work under Ubuntu. Yet after extensive searching I haven't found one that has gotten me where I need to be.
Here is my ...
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nvidia-setting not restoring settings properly after login
I finally was able to setup a triple-head setup on a nvidia card using nvidia-settings and arrange the monitors accordingly.
I also used the option to save the settings to the Xorg.conf - but when I ...
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How Drivers? Thinkpad T430u
Hi I recently installed Ubuntu 13.04 onto my Lenovo ThinkPad T430u and as far as I can tell it's all working but I would like to somehow confirm that all the drivers are functioning correctly, ...
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Nvidia drivers working on Precise 12.04 yet? [duplicate]
Does anyone know if the latest nvidia-current drivers are working for Precise 12.04 yet?
Meaning that has the problem with Nvidia's driver and X not working been fixed yet?
I'd like to know if I ...
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Dual (Triple?) Monitor problem with QQ + Nouveau
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell Latitude with an NVIDIA NVS 4200m video card.
I'm trying to get it to work with 3 monitors connected: the laptop's, one connected via VGA, and another via HDMI.
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Not Resuming After Suspend
My display card NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M fails to resume after suspend. It raises the error Nouveau E[ 1389] Failed To Idle Channel 0xcccc0000
*-display
description: VGA ...
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Bumblebee Configurator GUI Set-Up
Installed Bumblebee Configuator GUI.
I choosed "Nvidia" driver and "Exit at quit" thing to test it. It saved. But how do I know its really Nvidia driver that's in use?
The other option was ...
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Video / display issues
i just recently installed Ubuntu 13.04, everything was fine however i use dual nvidia 8800s, so one screen worked but the other didn't, so i installed the nvidia 310 drivers and gnome desktop, now ...
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Xorg.conf 2 identical monitors one VGA one HDMI different quality
I have two identical monitors connected on my pc but only the one connected via HDMI is "fully" recognized inside nvidia-settings.
I am trying to manually "decrypt" the xorg.conf file to make the ...
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nvidia 190.xx 64 bit driver manual installation
I have the geforce gt 240m from nvidia.
all the newest driver dont work good and my system crashes or get stuck.
so I want install the old driver manually but when i run the script i had an error ...
