nVidia is a manufacturer of graphics cards.
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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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1answer
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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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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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GPGPU/CUDA in KVM or Xen
We would like to enable direct access to CUDA-enabled GPUs within either KVM or Xen (or Citrix Xenserver). Specifically, we want to use PCI passthrough to access an NVIDIA Tesla S2050 unit, which is ...
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1answer
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Switch display output without rebooting but not in Xorg
My graphic card has two output (VGA and DVI). Is it possible to switch from one to the other without rebooting ?
It works in Xorg by restarting the X server (I guess it should be doable with xrandr ...
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1answer
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Force X to use second video card so I can pass through first card to XEN VM?
So I am trying to get X to start on my second (PCI 02.00:00) video card and stop using the main card (PCI 1.00:00). I would like to do this because I want to pass through the PCI 1 card to a XEN HVM ...
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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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help needed to decipher this Acer Aspire 4830TG ACPI code for Nvidia Optimus
I am trying to make sense of the following NVOP Method from the ACPI tables for an Acer Aspire 4830TG with an Nvidia Optimus hybrid graphics system. The NVOP method on top defines a bunch of ...
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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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1answer
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Pixelization of KDE screen
I am using Arch Linux on an Acer Aspire 5920G and KDE 4.6.5 as WM. All installed packages are up-to-date.
Starting some days ago I got few strange artifacts that spread all over the screen. ...
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1answer
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Show Display Numbers on each Display
On Windows, there is an option to click on a button in the display properties called like "Identify Displays", it then shows a number over each monitor for a few seconds so that you know which display ...
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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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dualhead nvidia twinview + one monitor rotated
So I have two monitors, I want to rotate one in portrait. AFAIK twinview doesn't allow single monitor rotation -- both monitors are rotated.
The reason I want twinview is because it allows ...
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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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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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How do I “fix” Flash?
I’m brand new to linux and, coming from Windows, I sometimes find it quite daunting. I managed to install openSUSE and after much trial and error I discovered how to install some software, and ...
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1answer
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NVidia driver for the 3.2.9 kernel
I upgraded the kernel on my OpenSUSE 12.1 64bit from 3.1.9 to 3.2.9, and when I rebooted, X-windows refused to start, and I got into shell. I tried to run it manually with startx, but still no good.
...
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1answer
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How can I automatically restart gnome-shell coming out of suspend mode?
So, due to an issue with gnome-power-manager, gnome-shell, and my nvidia card, I'm left in the awkward position of coming out of suspension/sleep with my graphics broken. This problem resolves itself ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Can the nouveau Xorg driver be used for a multihead workstation?
I'm trying a manual setup of Xorg 1.9.5, for two identical monitors connected to the VGA and DVI ports of an nVidia GeForce 6600. I get the X Server to run using a single screen, and it appears ...
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1answer
727 views
dual-head with NVidia Quadro FX3450/4000 on Centos 6.2
I am having troubles setting up dualhead with an NVidia Quadro FX3450/4000 card with Centos 6.2. The driver is installed from ELRepo.
I set up twinview with nvidia-settings (and checked ...
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1answer
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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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nVidia proprietary driver
I successfully installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run on my Debian Squeeze desktop but I do not see /var/log/nvidia-installer.log clearly stating which file(s) have been added/replaced. Does anybody ...
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Number of X screens corresponding to number of “Screen” sections in xorg.conf file for multi-monitor configuration
I want to set up a multi-monitor configuration where two "landscape" oriented monitors one above the other and two "portrait" oriented monitors one right of the other combine into a single large ...
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1answer
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openSUSE 11.4 doesn't wake up from suspend to ram, sometimes doesn't logout
I have openSUSE 11.4 on a vaio S series laptop, using KDE, and it is nearly up-to-date. Everything was fine but after an update (whose details I can't remember), these problems appeared:
Nearly ...
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How do I set up dual quadro cards in RHEL 5.5
have a RHEL 5 workstation with 2 nvidia Quadro FX4500 cards, with one display attached to each card. After doing a clean install of RHEL 5.5, the second display doesnt work (it worked ok in RHEL 5.2). ...
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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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2answers
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stop Xserver in Xubuntu 11
I want to shutdown my X to be able to install proprietary NVidia driver, but I couldn't find out how. There are some suggestions that didn't work for me.
I neither have /etc/init.d/gdm nor ...
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votes
1answer
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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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2answers
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Have to reinstall NVidia driver on every reboot
I am having an issue with my Nvidia driver after the latest update. Now, Every time I reboot the machine there is some conflict between two different version and I have to reinstall the driver before ...
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1answer
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How do I downgrade my nVidia Driver in openSUSE 12.1?
I’m trying to trouble-shoot a problem that I’ve been having. Downgrading my nVidia driver is about the only thing I haven’t tried.
I have an nVidea GeForce 6200 and installed the ...
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how to close X Server, to avoid errors while updating nvidia driver?
I tried to update my nvidia driver but i got an error when i ran the driver installation.
See the error:
ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before
...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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Mac G5 - Nvidia GeForce 5200 FX settings
I finally was able to install Debian on my powerpc, but the only way to get a GUI up is by disabling nouveau. I just use Linux nouveau.modeset=0 at the yaboot prompt. However my color is all messed up ...
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How to get the version of my nvidia driver?
I tried using cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version but it says the file does not exist.
Is there any alternative way to do that?
I tried to look manually for that file, but I couldn't find it. I also ...
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What fedora 15 should I download?
I would like to get Fedora 15, but I also need kmod-nvidia-PAE drivers. So, which iso exactly should download to make the kmod-nvidia work when I will download it by RPM Fusion? (Like the right ...
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1answer
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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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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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1answer
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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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Kernel 3.0.0-1 and NVIDIA driver boot problems
I can't boot kernel 3.0.0-1 on Asus G53S running Debian, it freezes when booting with:
NVRM loading NVIDIA Unix x86_64 kernel module 275.28
then it times out with:
udevd[350]: timeout: killing ...
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0answers
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NVIDIA card fan spins faster when not in use
In my system I have an NVIDIA video card (GeForce 450 GTS) as an extra card (video output via motherboard ATI) for bitcoin mining.
If I start mining, the fan speeds up a little, but the weird thing ...
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Xorg: two different libglx.so's with two different serverlayouts
I have an nvidia card for on monitor and a radeon (onboard) card for a second screen on Ubuntu 11.04.
Would it be possible to have one serverlayout use the nvidia libglx.so and the second ...
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How to set the resolution in text consoles (troubleshoot when any `vga=…` fails)
It is a common way to set the resolution of a text consoles (that are usually available by Ctrl-Alt-F1 thru Ctrl-Alt-F6) by using a vga=... kernel parameter.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, output of ...
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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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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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1answer
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Can Bumblee really help with Optimus Laptops?
I bought Lenovo Z570 which comes with nVidia GEForce GT520M (Optimus technology) and recently I installed Ubuntu 11.10. Surprisingly, whenever I boot my system CPU fan rotates at very high speed and ...
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Xorg -configure doesn't work with nouveau drivers
I'm having problems setting up X.org on Gentoo.
At the moment I have kernel 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 installed and have built X against this kernel. I have nouveau drivers installed and they seem to be ...
