Questions tagged [graphics]

Questions related to graphics, in particular getting graphics cards to work. Please tag your exact graphics card version as well if you know what it is.

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Ubuntu gui not starting after installing nvidia graphics driver

I'm a new ubuntu user. I'm using a 22.04 LTS version. It was running pretty fine until I decided to install an nvidia graphics driver. I have an nvidia geforce GT 610 graphics card. I installed the ...
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Nvidia graphics card not running

It says the graphics card drivers are installed, and I have installed 390, but I hardly beleive it is actually in use. I am unsure why the resolution got messed up too, happened sometime during my ...
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Does this X.org Modeline look right?

I inherited an unusual custom monitor from a defunct department in my company. I did manage to get instructions on how to set up the timings using the NVIDIA Control Panel in Windows as shown here: ...
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Can I use Intel HD 4000 Graphics and discrete Radeon HD for dual monitors?

On windows I have a dual monitor setup. I have one monitor connected directly to the motherboard, running off of Intel HD 4000 graphics. I have another monitor connected directly to my Radeon HD 7850. ...
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How do I fix dragging window lag?

Whenever I drag a window in Ubuntu, the dragging process isn't smooth. My refresh rate is set to 144Hz. Please help; I don't want some complex type of help (i.e., Compiz). My GPU is MSI 1060 6 GB. ...
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How to limit power to multiple gpu's?

I currently have 3 graphics cards 1 rtx3060ti and 2 rtx3080ti. One rtx3060ti is currently up and mining and I reduced it power consumption down from 200watts to 140watts using the command sudo nvidia-...
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Streaming websites do not give me the same image quality on Ubuntu as on Windows, how can I fix this?

I am trying to play movies and series on Amazon Prime videos and Netflix, but the quality is low compared to Windows. My laptop is the Asus Vivobook s15 OLED bape Edition model. Graphics card: Intel ...
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NVIDIA GPU fan speed configuration only applies to 1 of 2 GPUs

I have two NVIDIA GPUs, and I want to set the fan speed of each separately. When I use nvidia-settings to do this, I can only set the fan speed of [gpu:0], and changes I make affect the device labeled ...
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After prime select graphics card not showing up in Ubuntu about

I have used sudo prime-select nvidia to set nvidia and then rebooted. After that prime-select query returns nvidia, but under system info the old integrated graphics still shows up: Also I cannot see ...
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It is possible to use dual-screen RDP for an Ubuntu 23 desktop VM?

I have an Ubuntu 23 desktop VM in VMware vSphere. I already set the virtual video card to have two displays and 128 MB of video memory. However, when I RDP to it (ensuring "use all monitors" ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 laptop screen is blank, but monitors connected to HDMI and USB-C ports work

I am using Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (Windows/Ubuntu dual boot, with Ubuntu on an external SSD). A long time ago, I made changes such that my two external monitors (one with an HMDI cable and one with a USB-...
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GPU accelerated apps go unresponsive after waking from sleep. (Nvidia)

Weird problem I have on ubuntu 23.10/i3wm. Whenever I put the computer to sleep using systemctl sleep, and I wake it up, a lot of the previously opened GPU accelerated apps just go unresponsive/blank ...
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Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT driver installer cannot find GCC version number in /proc/version

I have learned a lot doing this and now I’m a bit hung up on this next part. This is a 2009 15-inch MacBook Pro which has had internal components swapped out, such as a Samsung SSD and apparently 2 ...
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GUI rendering problem in WINE with and without DXVK

I need to run together two windows programs inside Ubuntu/wine: Omnisphere (GUI works with default wine rendering but not with DXVK (a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11)-GUI renders ...
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glfw no close button

With native programs everything works as expected, but when try to run a basic program using the glfw library I get a window without buttons. How to enable them?
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MacBook Pro w/ Ubuntu Blank Screen Boot-Up

I have two MacBooks. One installed Ubuntu 18.04 flawlessly. The other would hang on the Splash Screen for the intial install. So in the grub menu, I pressed 'e' and typed in nomodeset where applicable....
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Intel Arc A380 working in host machine. But cannot get it to passthrough to docker containers

Recently purchased an Intel Arc A380 because I saw multiple people posting that they were able to use them for plex transcoding. I followed all the documentation provided on Intels website. Upgraded ...
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Ubuntu Dual Boot - Graphics Device Startup issue

I am completely new to dual booting Ubuntu with Windows and Linux in general. Now I just downloaded Ubuntu 22.04 with Rufus and did the disk partitioning of 30 GB (went safe) and everything that all ...
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Better GL performance with Radeon HD 7750M card?

I'm running Ubuntu Studio on an EliteBook 8470p with a Radeon HD 7750M GPU. I've got xserver-xorg-video-radeon installed, the radeon and amdgpu drivers are loaded without errors according to dmesg. ...
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Display Crash Issue During Ubuntu 20.04 Installation on Lenovo P360 with Nvidia T1000

I am in need of some assistance with installing Ubuntu 20.04.5 server on my Lenovo P360 workstation with an Nvidia T1000 graphics card. I have encountered a problem that only appears with Ubuntu 20.04 ...
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Fresh Ubuntu 22.04.04 LTS freezes randomly

I bought a refurbished dell latitude 7390 and decided to install ubuntu on it. This was my first time installing any linux distro. In the installation process, I had to do the installation in safe ...
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My Nvidia GPU is not being used on Ubuntu 22.04

I recently noticed that my Nvidia 1080ti was not being used by Ubuntu. I checked using the command ubuntu-drivers devicesas well as sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall and determined that the recommended ...
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How to disable my inboard ( intel ) graphic card

I'm pretty new to linux, but I did my best to obtain all information regarding my issue so maybe someone could help out. I have an HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook, with Ubuntu 14.04 manually installed. The ...
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WSL2 graphical application display issue

I have installed Ubuntu 20.04 on wsl2, Windows 11. I have installed CUDA as well. whenever I open any Ubuntu app with GUI, such as file manager or any other installed apps, the graphics window display ...
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paraView wont boot after latest updates

After a resent update of ubuntu $ cat /var/log/apt/history.log ... Start-Date: 2024-02-20 18:50:20 Commandline: aptdaemon role='role-commit-packages' sender=':1.236' Upgrade: libglx-mesa0:amd64 (23.0....
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Is there a solution for 22.04 and kernel 6.5.0-14 - 21 (22.04) for users of NVidia cards using the Nouveau driver?

I'm running 22.04 LTS with an Asus NVidia GeForce GT 730. I'm using the Ubuntu provided video driver (Nouveau). Since upgrading my kernel to 6.5, I notice that my monitor goes to sleep (power save) ...
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My HP printer is printing the print preview pages ONLY. I have print preview disabled. Printer worked fine when I put it to bed. Bad HPlip?

print preview is disabled doesn't matter if * use office or Thunderbird to open the printer I can not find anyplace that offers the option of printing the print preview running Ubuntu 22.04.3 Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Graphical Issue with Nvidia 390 driver

when I ran ubuntu's installer and clicked on the first option try or install ubuntu it just showed me a blank blinking "-", and when I chose the second option, Ubuntu (safe graphics) it ...
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Getting the latest NVIDIA graphics driver through Software & Updates

Is there a way I can install the latest NVIDIA driver https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ using the Software & Updates GUI rather than directly? In my experience manually installing the ...
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AMD graphics card not detected - Ubuntu 16.04

I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit) alongside Windows 10 on my laptop. It picked up my Intel integrated graphics just fine, but my AMD graphics card does not appear at all in Additional Drivers....
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Distorted colors in "Ubuntu on Xorg" session, 22.04 LTS "jammy"

"Ubuntu on Xorg" shows unreadable yellow-greenish colors, very bright and very unreadable:. (It is bright, very bright, the cell phone camera adjusted the brightness/contrast, but the text ...
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How do I install NVIDIA drivers on an AWS EC2 g4dn instance

I have a G4DN instance running but I wanted to know how to install the NVIDIA drivers on it so I can get access to the complete processing power of the instance. It is running Ubuntu 20 focal and is a ...
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23.10 Folder "Properties" icons look like colorful static after installing oibaf/graphics-drivers

I'm running 23.10 and just noticed that if I right click a folder, file, or shortcut from file browser and select properties the icon looks like static. How do I fix these broken icons? Graphics Card:...
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Ubuntu 20.04 4K resolution low FPS / stuttering?

I have setup Ubuntu 20.04 in Dual boot with Windows 10. On Windows 10 @ 3840 x 2160 (16:9) resolution I do not have any issues with video, smooth scrolling, IDE, games. However on Ubuntu @ 3840 x 2160 ...
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Random temporary screen lags since upgrade to 18.04

Since I upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 I have been having these strange screen freezes. Usually while playing videos or solitaire my screen will randomly hang. Although the mouse still works and moves ...
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Ati Radeon Xpress 1100/1150 Driver? Which one and how to install? Ubuntu 14.04

h@h:~$ lspci -nn | grep VGA 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS482/RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100/1150] [1002:5974] Thats my Graphics card. And all I need ...
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Driver is not found or not configured AMD Whistler [Radeon HD 6730M/6770M/7690M XT] graphics card (HP Pavilion dv6)

I'm a new Linux user. I installed Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) and I'm having trouble installing the driver for my AMD Radeon HD 6700M graphics card. "Driver is not found or not ...
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Slow rendering. Which GPU is a desktop process running on?

The question Sometimes, applications feel like they're rendering slowly. I don't know which of the multiple GPUs is doing the work for that specific application. I would like to know which GPU is ...
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How to handle child window in Xephyr

I need to use Xephyr to run an old application that requires 8-bit color depth. This following command works but with a problem. xephyr -ac -screen 800x600x8 -reset :2 & This application I am ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 secondary (Integrated graphics) monitor not working

My secondary VGA monitor using AMD integrated graphics (plugged into motherboard) will not work at the same time as my main monitor (plugged into NVIDIA 1050 Ti). I do not want to buy an adapter to ...
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Is my dedicated GPU being used on Wayland?

I have a laptop with an integrated Intel GPU and a dedicated Nvidia GPU. My OS is Ubuntu 22.04.4, with gnome. When I'm using X11, in the "About" tab in the settings I can see that both GPU's ...
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Nvidia Driver Issue ThinkPad T530

I just recently started using Linux on mu old laptop and the first thing that I encountered is that the quality of the picture and text is not as crisp and clean as it was on Windows. I think that ...
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Abnormal display on laptop screen

My laptop screen did not display properly when I installed Ubuntu 22.04. The display is out of place in the middle (horizontally), and the screen flickers. The computer graphics card is an 11th-...
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How to switch graphics card on macbook pro (mid 2012) with ubuntu in dual boot

Some days ago I installed Ubuntu 16.04 in dual boot with mac OS and it works very well (although the battery life is very poor). I saw that the default graphic card is nvidia (NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M)...
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How to install vulcan for intel graphics card

I want to play artifact on Ubuntu 18.04 but every time I try loading it says "failed to initialize Vulkan. Please make sure your driver and GPU support Vulkan." I have an Intel SandyBridge mobile ...
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AMD GPU not detected in Ubuntu 16.04

So I finally dual booted Windows 10 with Ubuntu 16.04. I have been running Xubuntu on my secondary laptop around 5-6 months and now decided to install it on my main laptop so far Ubuntu runs great but ...
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What does the kernel boot parameter "set acpi_osi=Linux" do?

I am facing an issue with brightness control in my laptop which has Intel HD graphics and Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit. So when I searched for a fix I found that a common suggestion is to edit the GRUB file ...
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Stability issues with dual screen and Nvidia card on Linux Ubuntu 22.04

I bought a laptop (HP Zbook) with integrated Nvidia GPU (RTX A500) to be able to do Deep Learning directly on the Laptop. I noticed that TensorFlow can only use Nvidia CUDA drivers when you are on ...
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Changing screen orientation makes display unusable

I've installed Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and have connected three monitors to my desktop. My main monitor is connected directly to the graphics card (GTX1060) and the other two are connected to a usb-c dock (...
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Boot using UEFI - no way to change grapics mode used in GRUB

If i set my BIOS/UEFI to boot in legacy mode, grub shows up in standard 80x25 VGA text mode, which is fast and usable. If i set it to UEFI, it's hard coded to use a very slow driver for my laptop (...

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