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How to use nVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 12.04?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 x64 on my ASUS G75-VW with nVIDIA GTX670M. I have installed nvidia drivers via terminal and additional drivers, terminal says nothing to upgrade, additional drivers shows that ...
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How do I make the CLI run on dedicated graphics?
I just finished my Gentoo minimal install and the first thing I wonder is why I get no picture. I did have signal on the live CD, so that was pretty odd. I plugged the monitor into the Intel HD ...
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Half screen appears to have film on it. Acer C7 Chromebook running 13.04
Right side of the screen is not processing colors properly. Does not show up in white space but when colors deep colors occur the right side is lighter and it seems to be a bit blurry as well.
I ...
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Can AMD and NVIDIA display cards work together on linux?
I know that two AMD graphics cards/two NVIDIA graphics cards can work together ,e.g. in xinerama/crossfire/multi-view.
But if I have one AMD graphics card and one NVIDIA graphics card, can I use them ...
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Which is has higher performance? Nvidia proprietary or Nouveau open source?
System: Manjaro 0.8.5.2 x64
Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53Ghz
Nvidia GT 240M
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Missing “version.h” when installing fglrx
I have downloaded the fglrx driver installer from the ATI drivers page.
when I start the installation, everything goes smoothly until I hit an error message, telling me to check ...
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What distro has excellent AMD PowerXpress support?
I have a laptop with an AMD 6630M/Sandy Bridge hybrid GPU. I've struggled in Ubuntu to get fglrx installed. It would run on the discrete card in 12.10, and wouldn't work at all in 13.04.
I'm ...
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What's stopping video cards from being utilized to their full capacity on Linux?
Why do video cards have better quality on Windows? Is there something about Linux that stops video cards from being utilized to their full capacity? What would it take to get the best possible ...
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grub2 ubuntu 12.04.2 flashing screen
Okay, so I've been searching a bit and either by my lack of understanding (I know just enough to be about as dangerous as a fluffy kitten) or because I am just not searching for the right stuff (maybe ...
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Intel Graphics Driver for Mint Linux
Though Mint 14 is based on Ubuntu 12.10 I get the following error when running the Intel Driver Manager under Mint:
diagnostics-view.c/diagnostics_view_start: Running diagnostic Checking ...
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Where do the device option values beginning with “Monitor-xyz” come from in xorg.conf?
Trying to install prop drivers for my Radeon HD6850 card on crunchbang (debian-based linux).
Followed these instructions for install from repo and used aticonfig instead of amdconfig to create an ...
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Is there a way to undo VGA adapter modesetting in Linux
I'm looking for a way to reset the graphics adapter to textmode after it has been set to some sort of graphical mode by the kernel on bootup, and possibly used by an X server.
Is there any code to do ...
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How to install driver for my Intel series PC
I installed Linux on an Intel Panel PC. Jockey cannot detect any drivers. I do not know how to install my graphics driver first so that I am be able to install touch screen.
Here's some info from ...
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Splitting RGB raw file into 3 files, one for each channel?
I need to convert an RGB raw file into 3 files containing each the red, green and blue channel. I have not been able to find a UNIX command line to help me with this task.
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ATI/AMD driver problem: Screens turn black/random colors random times
We've recently installed Linux Mint 13 64bit Mate on a Dell Studio 1558. We have since had issues with getting the drivers for the graphics card (ATI Radeon HD 5400) to work. Installing the Linux Mint ...
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Video Gibberish (once every week or two)
Trying to track down an odd video problem. I was running Ubuntu (Precise Penguin) before and running Lucid before that. In both cases the video was running fine (over the last two years).
However ...
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How do Firefox and Chrome render JPEG images on Linux?
I'm having trouble with Firefox and Chrome for some time now and it's very irritating.
Neither of these browsers will render JPEG images. Konqueror and Opera are fine though.
What libraries I can ...
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Graphics fuzzy in Ubuntu 12.10
I am new to Linux and Ubuntu. Having just installed 12.10 I notice that I get fuzzy text and icons that change when I move my mouse over them. See picture below as an example. What could be wrong and ...
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RHEL6.2 stuck at Starting virt-who when booting
I'm using the 32 bit version of RHEL6.2. I had to install the drivers for my Nvidia graphics card, after which everything was working fine, until today when wanted to install truecrypt, and it ...
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after enabling Xinerama (in AMD condor Dual-Head Graphics Card) the system graphics hangs
I have a problem in my AMD Condor Dual-Head Graphics Card
When I enable Xinerama from "System → Preferences → AMD Catalyst Control center (Administrative)" my RHEL Server 6.3 (x64) Graphics hangs.
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How to enable OpenGL rendering on Fedora 18 with an Intel Corporation 82852/855GM?
On an older laptop that runs Fedora 18, and has a Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device, I cannot get OpenGL to run on it.
In fact, I have no 3D acceleration whatsoever.
I have ...
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Intel 82845G Integrated Graphics hanging in Fedora 18 i686 desktop
The first sign of this was that on startup gnome started up in safe mode and I can't access system settings from the gui menu.
$ uname -a
Linux mymachine 3.7.2-204.fc18.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Jan 16 ...
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Xorg not working on Arch Linux
I installed Arch i686 on a VirtualBox VM (I have an nvidia GT610). I ran the following commmand as root:
pacman -S nvidia
After installation and rebooting, I ran
pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit ...
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Ubuntu 12.04, black background for some areas of GTK programs under KDE
I use ubuntu 12.04, x86_64, kernel 3.2.0-35-generic.
I use KDE desktop. However, under KDE the GTK programs have black background in some areas.
e.g.
How to solve the problem?
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How to run cinnamon properly?
I am running cinnamon fallback, the output of inxi -SGx is
System: Host: elie-Hp Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.6.3) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Graphics: Card-1: ...
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HDMI port not working after installing KDE Desktop Enviroment for Ubuntu
My laptop can't detect the HDMI port and my Samsung TV shows no signal. When I run xrandr, my HDMI port doesn't show in the output.
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x ...
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How do I configure Xen GPU passthrough for my AMD Radeon GPU?
I have an Ubuntu Server 12.10 setup with Xen 4.2.0 installed (compiled from source) and an AMD Radeon 7750 GPU. My Xen installation appears to be working and I can create virtual machines for example.
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Automatically printing images with added captions
I have a lot of scanned images and images/photos I'm working on with
multiple versions. When I print them (using various programs), all I
get is the image and, often, it's difficult to tell which ...
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Is there any difference between use driver from ati.amd.com or download fglrx package from repositories?
I'm wondering if both are the same or one is better than the other.
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Possible missing firmware
I've just installed Backtrack 5 r3 (Gnome, 64bits) on my new machine but I am kind of facing a problem.
I tried installing ATI driver, gparted, and libc for 32-bit support and I always seem to be ...
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How to visualize directory tree structures?
I know I can use tree to show the nested content of a directory. Alas, its output is hardly beautiful as I want to include it in a documentation. So eye-candy is a requirement.
So I was wondering if ...
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Which driver for Intel HD Graphics should I install?
Recently, I have replaced my old motherboard Giga G41M + Pentium 5500 CPU with the new Giga B75M + Celeron G540 CPU.
The old motherboard has an on-board GPU, Intel GMA X4500.
The new motherboard has ...
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cinnamon doesn't start, bumblebee problem
I have Linux Mint 13 64 bit version with cinnamon, NVdia Geforce 320m, proprietary driver 304.54 if I'm not mistaken. I installed bumblebee following this guide:
sudo add-apt-repository ...
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Checking video card load via command line
Is there a command like cpustat or iostat or memstat, but for the video card? Or some indication in /proc or /sys?
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XDMX Setup Help
I have been searching for some time now, but apparently I am not using the proper words. I am trying to setup a cluster with xdmx to display all of the information from my head node, but I am only ...
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Graphical interface on a remote server?
I've got a VPS with Debian running on it. I connect to it using SSH and configure it in a console mode.
Now I want to install some graphical interface to it and use my VPS in graphical mode from my ...
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Graphics on boot like the backtrack linux or the Gentoo live DVD after you press alt+F1 on boot
Would like to find a good tutorial on how to make a boot splash similar to the one on backtrack {3,4,5}. It has all of the terminal text that you would see on a normal boot up but it has a nice ...
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What's the “OBEY” Tux logo all about?
There's a variant on the Tux logo I keep seeing; recognizably Tux's head sat above a red "OBEY" text. Examples.
It's striking, but what the heck does it actually mean ?
I've seen it mentioned as ...
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strange noise in some gui programs
I have Debian testing, I use XFCE. Recently, shortly after dist-upgrade, I noticed that XFCE terminal has some noise in it - especially near the end of long lines or when I use midnight commander. The ...
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How to get dual graphic cards working under Linux?
My laptop is Dell Inspiron 5420, with two graphic cards:
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Nvidia GeForce GT 630M
I took the Thinkpad T400 configuration guide as an example to configure my Linux, but I only ...
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How to make changes in nvidia-settings tool persistent
I want to disable VSync (it's called "Sync to VBlank" in nvidia-settings) for my nvidia graphics card.
But the configuration only takes effect if I start the nvidia-settings tool. After rebooting ...
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Which graphics board my OS is using?
Is there any way to specify which graphics chipset our OS should use? on machines with discrete GPU, when graphics driver installed linux will by default use GPU for UI but I want OS to use on-board ...
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Should I update my Fedora or not?
Here is my problem. My laptop has an NVidia Geforce 310 M graphic card. And since kernel 2.6 I had problems with the display. I had to use nomodeset option in the grub, if not my screen will be off ...
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modetest.c from libdrm tests lists no framebuffers
I wanted to play with KMS since it seems to be the preferred low-level graphics library on Linux. However, after compiling the appropriate modetest.c version (2.4.32, since that's the version of ...
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How to force Intel GMA 3150 use only fixed rectangle of the screen e
I have Atom N455 with Intel GMA 3150 and Debian 6 xfce x64. It's connected to 1680x1050 display by VGA cable. The problem is that the screen looks blurry (on Win also). I found that the maximum ...
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Xorg.conf, which modules should be loaded for better performance?
In general what is supposed to be in the Module section of the Xorg.conf file in order to get maximum performance from a graphic card?
At the moment my Module section is empty... also because I ...
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Recommend distribution for Graphic Design
I'm new here.
I need for a Linux Distribution for my girlfriend, to install on her computer (in a VM, to be more exactly).
She studies Graphic Design, and she use to work on Windows XP, but she got ...
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Linux support on 2012 MacBooks
I want to buy a 2012 MacBook with the Retina Display. Does it work well with Linux?
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View pdf file in terminal
I want to see pdf files available on our cluster rather than copying them into my local machine and than visualize.
Please tell me how can i do this.
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Fedora 16 Screen Issue
I have installed Fedora 16 recently, at first time login it was working fine. But when I restarted and after I gave user name and password, the home screen comes but its shaking rapidly and I am ...
