Questions about X.Org Server (commonly known as Xorg Server, XServer or Xorg), the software that runs the X window system used by most desktop window managers (GNOME, KDE, etc)
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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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DisplayLink usb on ubuntu 12.04 on laptop
I'd like to use a displaylink usb UGA-2k-A rev b. (dl-195) on my laptop with ubuntu 12.04
I have an Asus x53s with intel graphics and nvidia Geforce GT 520MX 1GB.
I've read a lot of posts about how to ...
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X11 Server with chromium only
I have a ubuntu server 12.04 running and want it to display a particular website all the time (nothing else).
I am not familiar with X Servers and window manager. After some research I installed X11 ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 HDMI resolution and display options incorrect
I have installed ubuntu 13.04 and the HDMI resolution is incorrect and options limited to a max of 1280x720. The VGA is not perfect as it is cutting off the top taskbar slightly, it also shows a ...
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X screen is broken after upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10
I had a perfectly working system running Ubuntu 12.04. After upgrading to 12.10, my X screen is "broken" (I don't know how to describe this in words). Some parts of the screen are still legible, but ...
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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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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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Configuring gmusicbrowser to copy now playing to X clipboard
I'm trying to get gmusicbrowser to copy song information to my X.org clipboard with the Now Playing plugin. For on song change, in the plugin's configuration, I have
echo "%a - %t (from %l, %y)" | ...
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Virtual mouse driver, possible problems with X11
I created virtual mouse driver according to Essential Linux Device Drivers book. After i wrote coordinates echo x y > /sys/ ... /coordinates into sysfs node, my program generates event packets through ...
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Gnome/Unity not working
I wanted to try the gnome 3.9 UI on ubuntu 12.04 LTS. So I installed the following ppa
add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Then I added the ...
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How would I calibrate a tablet pc (pen input only) screen?
I have a 6-year old thinkpad X60 tablet. Legendary laptop, though its screen isn't very well calibrated by default in ubuntu. The screen appears as a 'Serial Wacom Tablet'. Is there a way to calibrate ...
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Does installing fglrx driver changes xorg.conf (custom resolutions)?
I use an LCD with 1920x1080 resolution and VGA connection. When I first installed Ubuntu it showed only up to 1360x768 in display settings. I added 1920x1080 resolution by using gft/cvt commands and ...
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Xorg hangs machine after a period of inactivity
And this happens only when I leave the machine with X running.
Here is my xorg.conf, which is basically the failsafe one.
Section
"Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Driver ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 with Nvidia Geforce FX 5200
I installed pure Ubuntu 13.04 and tried to install the restricted driver,but it became yellow-screen after reboot.
I found this question:
Help! 13.04 installation nvidia driver
I do in this way:
sudo ...
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After upgrading to 13.04, plugging in external display to my laptop causes the displays to freeze randomly
I had installed 12.10 on my lenovo ideapad z560 laptop at work last week. I use it together with an external monitor and everything was working fine and then today I upgraded the distribution to ...
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Nvidia Drivers in Asus m50VC GeForce9300M Ubuntu
I've installed ubuntu 13.04 in my Asus M50VC and I have some problems with nvidia crashes and compiz errors.
It presents lots of drivers by nvidia with 313 update, 310 update and the latest update was ...
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GUI session failed to be launched
After I enter my login information. there is a black screen showing some error messages and then it returns to the login screen again. All this happens in a splash - hence cant see the error ...
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compiz refresh rate keeps resetting itself to 50
compiz refresh rate keeps resetting itself to 50 every time you restart the pc this only happens with nvidia with nouveau driver everything looks good but gets very hot pc reaches 80
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Desktop PC, Two video cards, two monitors, still having problems
First of all, please keep in mind, that I'm a Linux user for a hour or two. This is my first day of migration from Windows. SO HELLO! :)
So, here's my issue. I have two graphics cards on my desktop ...
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Why doesn't tty7 show a prompt with no display manager?
When I drop to tty1-tty6 through Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] it shows a prompt, for obvious reasons (it's supposed to).
However, if I kill my display server, and thus X, through something like
sudo service gdm ...
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Help! 13.04 installation nvidia driver
I've installed ubuntu 13.04 on my laptop hp 6720s with video card Intel 965 chpset Intel gma x3100.
After the boot the classic purple screen appear and before the login page the screen become black ...
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Not possible to set monitor/display configuration permanent
I have got stucked in how to permanent set my monitor/display resolution
Ubuntu does NOT detect my monitor without always use default.
my_user@my_computer:~$ sudo xrandr --newmode "1680x1050" ...
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Alsa works in virtual console but not in X Windows
After booting my computer and logging in on a virtual console the aplay command works as expected but after running startx only root can run aplay. As non-root I get the following error message:
$ ...
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How can I properly install the latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers on 13.04? (x64)
I'd like to install the latest and greatest straight from NVIDIA, but I get an error message saying I need to log out of an X environment or something. Obviously using the default drivers doesn't ...
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How to use ubuntu 13.04 with ATI RV635 [Mobility Radeon HD 3650] graphics card?
I upgraded from ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 on a laptop running an ATI RV635 [Mobility Radeon HD 3650] graphics card. After the update the screen was garbled. If I get into ubuntu via the ubuntu recovery ...
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13.04 Upgrade with NVidia
Ubuntu 13.04 upgraded from 12.10
3.8.0-10-generic
Nvidia GeForce 310 r a2 (GT218) Graphics Card
Samsung 1920x1200 display
I received the notice to update to 13.04 the other day and I accepted it - ...
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Xorg crash leads to unresponsive window management
This is a very hard question to ask, because the symptoms are so wierd.
I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and its set to automatically log me in on boot. When I see my desktop, everything works good. When I ...
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Can't get xterm to work. DISPLAY not set.
Here are my settings:
$ xterm
xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
xterm: DISPLAY is not set
$ echo $DISPLAY
$ cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep X
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
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How do I get large windows to always show scrollbars (LXDE)?
Im running LXDE with a resolution of 480x320 and some windows aren't large enough to fit in that, so their bottom is hidden below the bottom of the screen. Is there some way I can force all windows ...
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How to connect to existing X session without unlocking physical display?
I usually leave many programs running on my workstation and sometimes I need to use it remotely. So I need to connect to existing X session, while keeping physical display (workstation's monitor) ...
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Cannot login graphically after update to 13.04 [closed]
I cannot log in to a particular user's account in X after upgrade to 13.04. The password is accepted, the screen goes blank but rather than getting the desktop I am quickly returned to the login ...
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TripleHead2Go vs Ubuntu
I am not able to set a resolution of 4320x900 with my TripleHead2Go with 3x 22 inches monitors.
I contacted the Matrox support and this was the answer:
"Please take note that there is no official ...
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How to forward serial devices' input to X?
We have a barcode scanner used here, which for some reason has to be a serial device. So all its scanning output is sent to /dev/ttyACM0. If I cat /dev/ttyACM0, I could get the strings.
Problem now ...
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Icewm broken after upgrading to 13.04
I have installed an Ubuntu minimal of version 12.10 and put an xorg and an IceWm over it as window manager without any login manager.
Today I try to upgrade my system to the new version (13.04). The ...
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xserver-xorg-lts-quantal will remove many packages
I am try to install xserver-xorg-lts-quantal in ubuntu 12.04 .
But it says installing xserver-xorg-lts-quantal will remove many packages.
How to keep those packages?
Thanks
When I choose ...
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While using 3 monitors, the third one just displays a TTY
I'm using the VGA and the DVI outputs of my ATI RV516 XT Radeon X1600 SE to connect two monitors, which works (finally). Now I have a third monitor and I´ve heard, that you can use your onboard VGA ...
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Xserver crashes with ATI except for root
The xserver stopped working for any normal user except root. The error message and lspci output is posted at http://pastebin.com/VSU50WXW.
I have reinstalled fglrx and fglrx-amdcccle, didn't work. ...
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Install driver ATI RADEON 6230
I had installed Ubuntu 12.10, but wanted to try 12.04, then after the installation finished I not had Unity 3D... So I remembered that when I ran 12.10, in Additional Drivers had something like ...
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Xubuntu 12.04 freezes before login on splash screen
Before you mark this as a duplicate for this What should I do when Ubuntu freezes? note that it is for issues after login, not before. I have tried previous versions of the kernel, Alt-F2, ...
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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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Single point touch doesn't work
This is a problem that has persisted since 11.10 and mainly the reason I've moved from Ubuntu to other Distros. On Ubuntu, single point touch works on and off only however multitouch works all the ...
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Where can I get i915_error_state from debugfs and the full dmesg?
My system has been intermittently freezing (apart from the cursor) for a month or two. I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on a Dell XPS L502X (hybrid graphics card, so I'm running Bumblebee). Usually even ...
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Graphics driver for ATI FirePro 2770 not working properly on 12.04
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and I'm having the following problems:
My monitor is not detected properly. In System Settings -> Display it says Laptop even though it is a desktop PC (a fairly standard ...
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xorg-edgers PPA doesn't seem to include fglrx-installer package
I'm trying to use the xorg-edgers PPA to install the latest ATI drivers on my laptop:
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa
According to that link there is a package named fglrx-installer ...
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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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OpenCL sees duplicate adapter
I have a strange issue with OpenCL/APP 2.8 on my 12.10 box. I had one 5830 and then added a 6850. The aticonfig utility sees them correctly but opencl has a duplicate entry for the 5830.
$ aticonfig ...
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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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Xserver sometimes fails to start
I'm having problems with my Xserver sometimes failing to start. It doesn't happen consistently, but when it happens, instead of showing the login screen I get some vague one-line error message about ...
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Add xorg section when device matched (SIS671 VGA)
I am working on small distribution based on Ubuntu. Some of computers we use are SiS based. I need to add proper xorg section which sets video driver to sis671.
I can use /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, but ...
