nVidia is a manufacturer of graphics cards.
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Linux Mint 15 no audio with NVidia MCP51
I updated from Linux Mint 14 to 15 recently, and since then my audio driver seems to be gone or nonfunctional. I don't have a ton of experience with drivers under Linux (grew up a Windows guy), but ...
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Udev rule- change group
I would like to change group of /dev/nvidia0. I was write udev rule:
KERNEL="nvidia[0-9]", GROUP="video", MODE="0666"
But it does't change group, after reboot file is in rootgroup. How do this?
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Nvidia Proprietry Driver Causing Multiple Problems
I have recently downloaded and installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17.run for my Nvidia Quadro NVS 130M Graphics Card.
Installation went fine after disabling the X server and running the install from a ...
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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 to use better driver (nouveau) instead of generic VESA with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M?
I've got laptop with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M and have no Gnome-shell which I like very well.
I use:
Debian GNU/Linux jessie /sid \n \l
When I run Debian as live USB everything works fine.
How to ...
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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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Window contents disappear after maximizing
Window contents usually disappear after Maximizing them! Especially Firefox. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Vaio Z56 laptop (graphics card: nVidia GeForce 9300M GS). I've read this question before and ...
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Install Linux Mint 14 from CLI
I'm trying to install Linux Mint 14 from a live cd on a HP Pavilion laptop. I got some problem with X and the nvidia card, which prevents X from starting (and therefore prevents the live installer ...
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Fedora won't boot after installing Nvidia drivers
I followed this tutorial about Nvidia drivers installation and I accidentally forget to do 5th point (disabling nouveau drivers), so now I can't boot my system. I know I am idiot but is there anything ...
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Black screen closing windowed opengl apps : XIO fatal error 11
When I quit windowed OpenGL applications, mainly LWJGL ones, I get a black screen for approximately two seconds. The screen doesn't go in power save mode, it never shuts down: I can see the backlight ...
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how to mirror four monitors with 2 nvidia cards on debian?
I have 2 nvidia GeForce GT 610 video cards with 2 monitors plugged to each one of them. I can mirror the A and B and C to D but I want them all to show A.
pleas help =)
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Mint update with NVIDIA breaks Cinnamon
I have Linux Mint 14 64-bit Cinnamon on a desktop with an NVidia GTX 680 graphics card. I downloaded and installed the drivers from the NVIDIA website (installed on TTY1 with sudo service mdm stop). ...
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How to boot LinuxMint on nVidia Optimus hardware?
I'd like to try LinuxMint on a Dell LAtitude E6420 laptop that has a nVidia Optimus hardware.
I downloaded the Mate iso and (on a Windowze machine) created a multiboot flash drive with this distro. ...
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How to change the default “fullscreen” monitor?
I have to monitors, one attached to my Nvidia graphics card using HDMI, the other one using VGA (using a DVI-VGA adapter). Most fullscreen games (that even recognizes that there are two monitors) uses ...
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OpenBSD, NVIDIA, and Xorg
I've installed OpenBSD 5.2 i386 on my desktop however I hit a wall when it came to running X at my native resolution (1920x1200). All of the hardware is working normally except for the video card: an ...
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Change screen resolution on Linux Mint
I have just installed Linux Mint 14 and I cannot change the screen resolution. The appropriate resolution 1920 x 1200, just isn't among the options.
I have tried this solution but it reports:
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xorg.conf 2 cards 3 monitors - why is one monitor stretched?
I have 2 nvidia cards with three monitors Left (0), Middle (1), and Right (2). I have to use xinerama to make them all one desktop because xrandr only joins 0 and 1, leaving 2 as a separate desktop. ...
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How to disable Nouveau on Fedora 18?
I want to install the proprietary Nvidia driver. Downloaded it from here. I have the 64-bit one.
However, when I try to install it, I can't because the Nouveau driver is already there. I have spend ...
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Upgrade OpenGL from 1.2 to 2 for Nvidia GT218 [GeForce 310]
To run my application OpenGL version 2.0 or higher is required.
glxinfo | grep OpenGL yields:
Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":1007.0".
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: ...
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Debian Console Font with Nvidia Drivers?
On my Debian Squeeze (6.x) installation my system had a nice small login shell font (terminus??) but after installing the nvidia drivers for my machine it boots up using a very chunky font (on a 24 ...
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Detect Monitor crashes the system with Nvidia Drivers in Linux Mint 13, Mate
I am using Linux Mint 13 - Mate in my Laptop and I am new to Linux.
Configuration - i3 Processor, nVidia GeForce GT 420M.
I am using a external monitor from Benq Corporation. I installed the latest ...
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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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GNOME 3 is not stable enough on some video card [closed]
I have a laptop dell inspiron 1720 and nvidia GT 8600m graphics card. I have install the fedora 16 its work fine for few days but now Gnome 3 crashed and I am unable to login. Does Gnome 3 is not ...
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Lower resolution of LVDS-0 in different aspect-ratio nVidia
I am trying to clone 2 displays. I have a laptop with 1440x900 resolution and an external monitor with 1024x768 resolution. I want the laptop screen to show the same as the external monitor however, ...
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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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How to disable nvidia ion on Asus eeepc 1201NL?
It seems that my netbook consumes battery too aggressively. I've been told that Nvidia ION videocard embedded into it has 2 cores and one of them is consuming battery all the time in Linux, since it ...
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Unable to get graphics to work on a Fedora 17 on a Intel Atom board
I have a Intel N2800 motherboard with the PoverVR Cedar Trail GPU. It seemed that it was not possible to make it work other than using some meego kernel patch that works on a specific kernel version. ...
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Typing in Chromium's/Chrome's Omnibox crashes browser
Very often, when I type something in Omnibox (address-bar), Chromium/Chrome crashes. W/ crash I mean that it freezes and refuses to any signals (mouse, keyboard etc.).
This is what got printed out to ...
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Linux usb Boot results in black screen
I'm trying to install Linux alongside Windows 8 on my new Asus Zenbook UX32VD, which has both an Intel HD 4000 and a NVidia 620M
I've been having quite a few problems booting up linux via USB so I ...
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Hopelessly stuck on making Nvidia Driver work on Debian
Before I posted question here, I'd been hacking around for the solution for my problem, but none of them worked. Here is my situation. I had a Win7 OS before I put a Debian Squeeze on it, now I got a ...
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Flash videos turn to gray box with light gradients on edges
As explained in the title .. it started happenning since installation of new openSUSE and it looks quite bizarre, see below for a shot from blip.tv.
It happens usually after few minutes of watching ...
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Cannot add new mode in xrandr for external monitor
Today I was trying to connect my second monitor to my notebook. I have:
nvidia graphic card
304.43 drivers [support xrandr 1.2]
archlinux [up-to-date]
awesome wm
xrandr 1.3
My problem is with ...
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Twinview: 2 monitors difference resolutions with NVIDIA
I'm successfully using twinview to drive 2 monitors for my home theatre computer (one in the case, one projector). I recently upgraded my projector and now the two screens have vastly different ...
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KDE not loading without nomode tag in grub and bad resolution
I recently installed Linux Mint 13 KDE but it's not working fine. At first I had to use failsafe mode to boot because normal boot takes to a textual login.
If I use normal boot and text login I'm not ...
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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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Specify Monitor For Linux Console
Does the kernel, framebuffer, or a framebuffer driver (uvesafb) have an option to specify the video-card output to use?
The kernel only outputs to one monitor:
Kernel message buffer (before and ...
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Nvidia 9800GT and HP w1907v resolution woes
I was happily dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 a year or two ago, with, as in the title, an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT graphics card (on a Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P) outputting VGA to an HP w1907v ...
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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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Set Xorg to use only part of the screen
My screen has 1280 x 1024 resolution. But unfortunately, rightmost belt of 200 pixels is damaged and unable do display any image.
How can I set that the Xorg will treat my screen as 1080 x 1024 ...
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Debian wheezy: cannot create “Hello World” module (and NVIDIA, and VirtualBox)
(EDIT: This is now solved (see the accepted answer). The problem lied with GREP_OPTIONS='--color=always'. Changing the value to --color=never resolved the problem.)
First off, the details.
BEFORE: ...
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nVidia drivers in Xorg / KDE - performance and stability for different cards
I have a GeForce 250 GTS card and I am using the proprietary drivers in Linux (KDE on Debian Testing). Unfortunately recently I had a lot of issues with stability and performance - I had quite a few ...
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Setting nvidia properties during X-server startup
I am using the proprietary nvidia drivers in KDE (Debian Testing) and as many others experience issues with performance. I noticed that it gets a bit better if I run:
nvidia-settings -a ...
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How do I setup dual-head monitors with an Nvidia drivers and one monitor rotated?
I have an integrated ION GPU, which is supported by the proprietary drivers and I've never been able to get the open source drivers to work. I would like my left screen to be normal, but the right ...
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Bumblebee (Optimus) Service Won't Start w/ 3.4 Kernel on Fedora 16
I'm using an ASUS laptop (MUXless graphics) w/ a GT 630M (re-branded 540M) GPU and only Fedora 16 installed. I installed bumblebee and the NVIDIAdrivers using the instructions described here: ...
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DELL Precision M-6400 - Wireless and Compiz
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 (64bit), but I can't use wireless and compiz.
Info:
$ lspci -nn | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [Quadro FX 3700M] ...
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Display problem - Random grid appears on screen
I have recently started using Arch with nvidia driver (I had a lot of problems getting nouveau to even work so I decided to try nvidia) and I started experiencing rather odd problems. Every now and ...
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Poor TTY resolution with nVidia driver
The resolution of the TTY1-6 is poor ~ 640×480
Ubuntu 11.10 | Grub2 | nVidia | NVIDIA GT215 Board
I went through the process on this site and after the edit the GRUB menu appears in the correct ...
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Multiple monitors as cloned desktop windows
I am running Fedora 16 using an Nvidia card with 2 monitors. I have the monitors setup as 2 separate displays (in that I can move a window from monitor to monitor). One monitor is mounted in a ...
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Excessive resource usage by Xorg
I'm using Debian (testing) on a laptop. I have installed the Nvidia drivers and I'm using an external monitor connected to my laptop. My desktop environment is Xfce4.
My problem is that Xorg seems to ...
