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Virtualbox 6 stopped working After kernel upgrade in Ubuntu 22.04

It is a bug, VirtualBox 6 isn't compatible with the new kernel. You have to revert-back to the old kernel or install the VirtualBox 7 from oracle: Stop the virtualbox service: sudo systemctl stop ...
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Unmet dependencies but "apt --fix-broken install" does not work

I finally found my problem. My installation (or upgrade) is killed and pops out the error like dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while ...
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Issues uninstalling amdgpu-dkms after upgrading to Ubuntu 23.04

A friend offered some advice, and we managed to get it working! In my case, this was the fix: sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq amdgpu-dkms cd /var/lib/dpkg/info sudo rm amdgpu-dkms.* sudo ...
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How to look for CH340 usb drivers

I ran into a problem in 22.04 which may be related even to 20.04. When I plugged in my ch340 the kernel log /var/log/kern.log reported the ch340 connected as /dev/usbTTY0 and then immediately ...
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Virtualbox 6 stopped working After kernel upgrade in Ubuntu 22.04

I had the exact same issue. I downloaded the VirtualBox 7.0.12 DEB package directly from Oracle, uninstalled virtualbox-dkms from the system and then installed the deb with sudo dpkg -i /path/to/...
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How can I know which device is using the driver?

You'll need to dig a bit and manually inspect those given you use the right tools the right way ... I can think of two ways that are user friendly(ish) to list enough information for you to identify ...
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MiPi Webcam with Thinkpad X1 Gen10 not working with Ubuntu 22.04

I finally got the camera working! I cloned and followed all instructions in all 4 github repos in order: https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers And in the first repo I chose option 3 to patch the ...
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Touchpad pinch zoom not functional in ubuntu 22.04

Your system should support multi gesture feature. Check if the wayland protocol is enabled by using the cmd echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE and the output should display Wayland Open your chrome browser and go ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.3, Kernel 6.5.0-XX-generic and RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller

NOTE: I had noticed that if I had booted into Windows 10 that when I booted back to Ubuntu without a hard power cycle that the NIC would not work correctly. This was actually due to the driver ...
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How to change proprietary video driver using the command line?

Nowadays (2023), you can use ubuntu-drivers both for looking at available driver versions, and installing them. For example, you can get the list of available drivers: ubuntu-drivers list install ...
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Screen turns yellow even using the live option Ubuntu 22.04

I tried many solutions related to the driver, but then I got the roundabout method to solve the problem. Solution: Go to setting. Go to color section. Select a different color profile for the display ...
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Displaylink not detecting monitor

Solution for me was to uninstall the driver and install it via apt. (Don't install it manually as that does not work) Step1: sudo displaylink-installer uninstall Step2: Download Synaptics APT ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 + nvidia drivers not working

In my case, the issue was with wrong GCC compiler version. This is how I found out: Downloading an installer from https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us Running the installer When ...
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Is this the default nvidia-driver for WSL2?

First, consider whether or not you really need the full CUDA Toolkit for your project. Many CUDA tasks can be accomplished with just the provided WSL CUDA libraries that are injected into each WSL ...
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Issues with mesa driver after update

You still have a mix of files from different Mesa versions as "DRI driver not from this Mesa build" is telling you. Let's remove the conflicting packages. Normally, you would use ppa-purge ...
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Ubuntu will not boot normally after nvidia driver install

I had a problem after installing the latest NVIDIA driver on fresh Ubuntu 20.04. What helped me solve the problem is running after NVIDIA installation: sudo ubuntu-drivers install To explain. I just ...
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How do I update my nvidia modules after updating my kernel?

When installing new kernels using the "Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer" it doesn't automatically rebuild the kernel modules for the nvidia proprietary driver. First ensure you have ...
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Built-in laptop screen is laggy even when external monitor is not a problem

I have been following this issue on Reddit and think that you may have a similar problem. See https://www.reddit.com/r/FlowZ13/comments/121arkr/how_to_fix_linux_on_the_2022_rog_flow_z13/ It suggests ...
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My USB Wifi dongle (RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller) is not working

Your USB wireless dongle is this: 0bda:c811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11ac NIC. The rtl8168 device is ethernet, not wireless. The correct driver is rtl8821CU but the driver you installed didn't ...
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Black screen AFTER login on Ubuntu 23.04 with Nvidia graphics and command characters dropping from command when entered

It sounds like you might be experiencing a graphics driver issue on your Ubuntu 23.04 system with Nvidia graphics. Here are some steps you can take to troubleshoot the problem: Boot into recovery mode:...
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Intel Iris Xe video drivers in Ubuntu 23.04

On all Ubuntu systems and flavors, Intel drivers are installed automatically during the operating system installation. My system is also equipped with an Intel Iris XE Graphics adapter and typing ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - yellowish screen

This is what worked for me Go to settings > color > select your monitor > add profile > Colorspace: sRGB. Answer provided by Prashant in this thread
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How to load and install the i2c-dev kernel module on 22.04?

You don't! By default, i2c-dev is compiled into the kernel, rather than as a separate module, which is why you can't find it as such. Grepping the kernel headers grep -R i2c-dev /usr/src/linux-headers-...
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Problem with nvidia-smi, nvtop, nvcc [Ubuntu 22.04] (hybrid GPU)

Problem was solved! Note that I installed Ubuntu 20.04 because of the kernel problem in Ubuntu 22.04! In my laptop I have 2 GPUs (hybrid GPU) I noticed that NVIDIA X Server Setting was not displaying ...
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Network controller driver of RTL8852ce does not work on 20.04

First, please remove the ineffective driver: sudo dkms remove rtl88x2ce/35403 --all Next, install the correct driver: sudo apt install --reinstall git bc git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89....
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New problem with rendering in Chrome, Vivaldi and Opera ... video driver issue?

what worked for me was a temporary solution of running Opera/Chrome with the --disable-gpu option @Edit delete folder ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/GPUCache (for opera is ~/.config/opera/GPUCache) ...
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Is there a definitive way to install amdgpu graphics drivers on Ubuntu 22.04?

until roughly 1 hour ago I had similar issues. Now I'd like to publish my solution and hope that it may help some of you ;) Prerequisites: First of All - My Setup: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (With integrated ...
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Graphics issues after amdgpu tinkering: "dpkg: error processing package amdgpu-dkms (--configure):"

Before you begin, you may need to uninstall the amdgpu-dkms package: sudo apt remove amdgpu-dkms I was having trouble with this as well and it seems like I was able to get the dkms to build by ...
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mongodb compass - white screen

The error also occurred with version 1.40.2, so I checked the version on my other computer and resolved it using these 3 commands, forcing the installation to version 1.39.3: wget https://downloads....
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Memory controller unclaimed in Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

I got a similar result on my server running sudo lshw -c memory: *-memory UNCLAIMED description: Memory controller product: Atom Processor C3000 Series Power Management Controller ...
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