Questions tagged [hybrid-graphics]
Questions related to systems with an integrated and discrete video card.
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How do I install the Nvidia drivers?
I just ordered the Nvidia GTX card. I have a dilemma, though. Should I keep using the driver which is available in "additional drivers" in Ubuntu, or should I install the driver from the Nvidia site?
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How do I get AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics drivers to work?
On Ubuntu 12.04 my Sony Vaio VPCSE with Intel® HD Graphics 3000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 6630M worked fine with the Catalyst Control Center version 12.6. Also the switching between integrated and discrete ...
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Can't install ATI proprietary drivers in 12.10
I have a laptop with ATI Radeon 6770M HD Hybrid graphics card. In Ubuntu 12.04, I installed the fglrx driver through "additional drivers" and it worked. (I can even switch GPUs). But in the new Ubuntu ...
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How to set up nVidia Optimus/Bumblebee in 14.04
The previous methods i have used to set up Bumblebee on 13.10 based distributions is not working under Ubuntu 14.04 . How can I set up Bumblebee and Bumblebee GUI in Ubuntu 14.04 ?
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Can't get internal and external monitor working simultaneously with 20.04 on laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 4800H and Nvidia RTX 2060
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On Ubuntu 20.04 cannot get internal and external monitor working at the same time.
Can have internal only with default drivers OR external only with manually installed NVIDIA driver. ...
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ATI/Intel hybrid graphics 16.04 LTS
Since I have an onboard Intel graphics card, and a ATI Radeon display controller, I was wondering if I could switch between the two as my graphics in use, as I could in 14.04 LTS through ATI Catalyst?
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How can I disable ATI discrete graphic GPU at startup in Ubuntu 14.04 without BIOS?
I could disable ATI discrete graphics in Ubuntu 13.10 with this command:
echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
But in Ubuntu 14.04 it does not work. cat /sys/kernel/debug/...
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Very Low Temperature Reading for graphics driver using lm-sensors
I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 and got the package lm-sensors. I mainly did this to monitor if my laptop was overheating. Each time I run it, it shows a very low temperature reading (the same every ...
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How do I turn off the Radeon GPU on my HP Pavilion DM4?
I have a HP DM4 Beats Edition running Ubuntu 11.10. The HP Pavillion runs on-board Intel graphics as well as Radeon GPU.
From what I have read it appears that the Radeon GPU is draining my battery ...
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How NVIDIA On-Demand option works in NVIDIA X Server Settings?
I have installed Nvidia proprietary driver on Ubuntu 19.10.
In the Prime Profiles section, there are three options:
* NVIDIA (Performance Mode)
* NVIDIA On-Demand
* Intel (Power Saving Mode)
First ...
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Intel/AMD Hybrid graphics Ubuntu 18.04
Working through a minefield of information at the moment and need help.
I've got a Dell Latitude E5570 which is setup with Hybrid graphics, Intel/AMD as such:
$inxi -Fzx
Graphics: Card-1: Intel ...
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Fglrx causes serious bug-black screen!
I downloaded newest driver from Ati site and installed it...
Now at start-up I see a black screen and message:
"Your screen,graphics card,and input device settings could not be
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AMD-INTEL hybrid graphics on Ubuntu 16.04
I saw many saying that the latest version of Ubuntu 16.04 includes an opensource driver for ATI. I have an HP laptop with AMD 6770m + Intel HD 3000 hybrid graphics and wants to install Kubuntu on it. ...
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vgaswitcheroo not selecting discrete card
I have a Dell 5110 laptop that has hybrid graphics. I have tried using vgaswitcheroo to some limited success, but I have still not been able to select my discrete ATI 6470 card. I use the following ...
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Static and crackling in my HDMI audio?
So, I managed to dual boot Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 13.04. In Ubuntu 13.04, I installed the drivers for my graphics card(AMD HD Radeon 7700 Series, I'm pretty sure it's a 7790 one and Intel HD Graphics ...
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Nvidia-331 Nvidia-Settings Prime Profile Switching Error
I'm having an issue with my nvidia-331 driver. I can't seem to switch between Intel and Nvida via nvidia-settings. The option is there but when I click 'nvidia' a blank error window pops up. It's very ...
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NVIDIA card for CUDA and AMD card for display on Ubuntu 16.04
I am using Ubuntu 16.04, since it is the OS that I found more convenient for working with convolutional neural networks (CNN). The process of installing Ubuntu was fine until I wanted to setup two ...
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How do I get switchable graphics to work on my Samsung RF711 With Intel HD & GeForce 540M Graphics cards on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
I have an Samsung RF711 Intel Core i7 laptop, running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit. This comes with two graphics cards - the Intel one (which runs by default) and an Nvidia GeForce GT 540M (which I have ...
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How to re-configure graphics from Intel integrated to Intel / ATI switchable?
Minimum goal: Ability to switch between the graphic cards without drivers re-installation. Restarting computer in the process is fine.
There are lots of 'how to get switchable graphics to work' ...
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How to configure an application to always run with DRI_PRIME=1 set? Is there an other way besides terminal?
I had followed the instructions posted by emk2203 (My AMD Radeon graphic card is not working on 16.04) and now I could make the apps use my secondary AMD card
and it's work! Look:
Firefox running (...
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Disabling NVIDIA card on hybrid graphics laptop
I have MSI GP60 2QE laptop with Intel HD 4600 and NVIDIA 940M graphics. I dual booted Windows 10 with Ubuntu 15.10 and noticed, that on Ubuntu NVIDIA card is always on what makes my battery last about ...
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Hybrid graphic card drivers (AMD® Radeon HD 8570 + Intel HD Graphics 4000)
I am always trying to find answers for my problems with Google, but this time I give up. I've read almost every topic on every discussion board, blog posts etc. about my problem. I've tried many tips, ...
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Ubuntu MATE freeze on logout/shutdown/reboot when running on Intel graphics card
I have installed Ubuntu MATE 16.04 on a new Alienware 13 machine. My problem is that shutdown/reboot/logout stopped working properly and the system freezes one I try to do shutdown. The problem ...
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3+ monitors, nvidia + intel graphics
I have seen lots of different posts on this issue, but I cannot figure out what to do.
I hope we can collect the available information in one place, so that they can be useful for others.
Is it ...
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How to turn off nvidia (hybrid graphics)
I have a big problem, which prevents me from using Kubuntu 14.04 as my default system. My Asus ul 80 laptop with hybrid graphics (nvidia g210m and intel adapter) seems to use both graphic cards all ...
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Disable NVIDIA Optimus Graphics Card
I am running Ubuntu 15.10 and have a laptop with NVIDIA Optimus technology. As known by many, Optimus has yet to receive official support and has a lot of issues. Since I do not need the power of the ...
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Nvidia 840M driver installation Acer E5-571
After a lot of trying and installing I don't know anything more to I can do to get this running.
I am having trouble installing the current Nvidia proprietary driver 346.35 on a Nvidia 840M graphics ...
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Could not resolve archive.ubuntu.com when reinstalling xorg
I managed to uninstall xserver-xorg completely, and now all I see when booting Ubuntu is a blank screen. I've tried reinstalling it through shell prompt (recovery mode) but every time I get errors ...
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My AMD Radeon graphic card is not working on 16.04
I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 final beta on a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Series (Intel(R)) - 5559.
This laptop has a AMD Radeon(TM) R5 M335 4GB DDR3 GPU.
I am unable to tell if it is being used or not. ...
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How do I get ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 + Integrated Intel HD to work?
I have a HP TouchSmart tm2150es with hybrid graphics (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 + Integrated Intel HD). It comes shipped with W7 Home Premium 64 bits. It has an Insyde BIOS.
I have certain ...
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Update to 3.13 kernel on Ubuntu 13.10 [duplicate]
Since my ATI hybrid graphics card isn't working well under Linux, I wanted to try the new kernel. I don't want to update to 14.04 just yet, because of some missing dependencies and there doesn't seem ...
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Max VRAM supported by open source ATI radeon
I have an ATI HD6370 with dedicated 1G running on Ubuntu 11.10. Following is the output from dmesg
sourajit@sourajit:/etc/X11$ sudo dmesg | grep drm
[ 5.149765] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 ...
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How to enable to work only one card on my laptop?
I have a laptop with Intel HD and Nvidia GPU video cards and I have a problem with installing drivers for the second. They mess everything up. Unity don't want to start, because GLX MISSING ON DISPLAY ...
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Dell XPS15 L502x Mini Display Port not working Ubuntu 13.04
Before i had Ubuntu 12.10 running on this laptop and the mini display port worked. Now i have Ubuntu 13.04 and the mini display port does not work anymore. If i connect my external monitor using a vga ...
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Intel/AMD Hybrid graphics on Ubuntu 14.04
I recently acquired a new laptop featuring hybrid graphics, namely a Toshiba P50T-B. I installed Ubuntu and at first I had lots of troubles to set up the graphics. The screen was turning black right ...
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Ubuntu 18.10 shows black screen with blinking cursor after I rebooted a Thinkpad with hybrid GPUs [duplicate]
To switch to Intel GPU from Nvidia 1050Ti, I entered "sudo prime-select intel". Something like: get Intel information showed up on the screen. I logged out and logged in. I went to About but it showed ...
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hybrid-dump for VDPAU accelerated video playing on Ubuntu 11.10 with bumblebee 3.0?
I am trying to run hybrid-dump for VDPAU accelerated video playing on Ubuntu 11.10 with Bumblebee 3.0 installed and running. But following the instructions in the URL below, I can't get mplayer with ...
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(Quite Old No longer relevant) 14.04 : How to disable discrete graphics card [closed]
Edit (May 2019)
This is nearly 5 years old question and as one of the commenter mentioned, I have moved on. I don't want to delete it - cause there is a warning against that. So I'm putting this edit....
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How to make steam games use my AMD GPU instad of my Intel GPU?
I have an Intel HD Graphics 520 Integrated GPU and an AMD Radeon R5 M330 dedicated GPU. My steam games seem to be using the Intel GPU, as I get 20-40 FPS out of them, and sometimes they freeze and I ...
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Is my AMD hybrid-graphics card supported by Ubuntu 16.04 driver?
so before I try a clean install of 16.04 LTS when it's released, is there any way to find out whether my AMD graphics card is fully supported by the driver?
I'm not talking gaming, just the open ...
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Discrete graphics always DynOff
I'm using the default open source driver and when I run
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
I always have my discrete AMD adapter as DynOff. I tried
echo ON > /sys/kernel/debug/...
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Ubuntu 13.04 amd/intel hybrid graphics dual screen problems [duplicate]
After switching to Ubuntu 13.04 64bit, AMD proprietary drivers stopped working on my laptop with AMD/Intel hybrid graphics.
I tried installing older version of Intel graphics as described in this ...
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Optimus laptop - Chopping and stuttering videos with Intel onboard graphics and screen tearing with Nvidia graphics
I have a Clevo P640RF laptop with an Intel 6700HQ processor and an Nvidia 965M with optimus switching. After about a week's worth of arm wrestling with the laptop, I have finally managed to stabilize ...
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Ubuntu and the HP Envy 15t-3200
Could someone post a tutorial on making Ubuntu 13.04 work with the HP Envy 15t-3200?
I own this laptop, and have had to use Windows so far. :(
There are several problems (touchpad, sound, etc), but ...
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vgaswitcheroo doesn't work on 14.04 - discrete Radeon always on, Dell Vostro 3350
I've a following problem - I've just upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04 on my Dell Vostro 3350 and I can't turn off the discrete graphics. As instructed here and following HybridGraphics I managed to ...
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AMDGPU with hybrid graphics 16.04
I have an onboard Intel graphics card, and a ATI Radeon accelerator in hybrid graphics. In 1404 LTS, my previous version, I used ATI's catalyst driver, and I could switch betweeen the graphics system ...
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How do I turn off the discrete card on boot when there's no option in the BIOS?
I have quite old laptop - MSI CX620MX. It has two graphic cards - integrated Intel card and ATI Mobility Radeon HD545v.
I have installed WIN7 and ubuntu 12.04. I would like to know, how can I disable ...
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Acer Aspire 8951G Nvidia Optimus and HDMI issues
After loooong searches it seems that linux users are pretty much screwed when it comes to Optimus.
Does anyone know of a workaround other than trying to flash the BIOS with the hack that will show an ...
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Overheating problem in Ubuntu 14.04
I'm still having an overheating problem in Ubuntu 14.04. I have heard that the problem would vanish in the new version (Ubuntu 14.04), but my HP Pavilion g6 laptop is still overheating. It's not ...
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Enable AMD/Intel hybrid graphics in ubuntu 16.04
I got HP-ProBook 450 G0 laptop and it contains flowing graphic cards,
results of lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev ...
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