Questions tagged [graphics]
graphics is used for questions that are related to graphics mode (tty) as well as graphic cards and their drivers. Please note that there are a few specific tags like [intel-graphics], [amd-graphics] available that should be used instead when applicable. X11 related issues have their own tag: [x11], as do GUI related questions: [gui].
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Black screen at boot time after a kernel update/upgrade or a clean install
Yo there, I have been experiencing a black screen problem after a clean install, an update of the kernel or upgrade of the distribution (opensuse tumbleweed). Recently what it struck the issue was a ...
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Can I play a sound or display things in Ubuntu on mobile device?
Some time ago I installed Termux terminal on my phone just to have some fun with it. Later I discovered I can have an Ubuntu distribution running with it so I decided to give it a try.
It's working ...
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nouveau error message appears on boot after upgrading nvidia driver manually
My Linux PC has a Nvidia GPU. I used to manage the graphics driver by the nvidia-driver package. However the stock is a bit behind so I decided to install the latest one myself from Nvidia.
I made the ...
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Console output not aligned on 4k screen
After a fresh Ubuntu Server install, the console (no GUI) output is not aligned to the left side of my 4k screen. Instead, each line starts at a third of the screen width away from the right side, and ...
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Screen resolution changed on Debian and it is impossible to get it back
Today, after shutting down my laptop from Windows, I turned on my computer and realized GRUB was zoomed-in, and also Plymouth start screen. SDDM and KDE where zoomed in too, and even TTYs. After ...
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Monitor at first shows "overclocking" when starting KDE
When I boot my Manjaro Linux system, I get a graphical GRUB, then some boot text messages and finally when KDE Plasma starts, my monitor only shows the message "Overclocking" and nothing ...
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How can "glfw error 65543" be fixed?
After updating my drivers to the latest version available (nvidia 525.116.04) multiple apps are broken, such as KiTTY and Minecraft. They both have variations on this error:
[glfw error 65543]: GLX: ...
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How to reverse the screen like in a mirror, while keeping the mouse movement with Wayland?
I asked similar questions and successfully mirrored (switch right to left and vice versa) my device's only screen on X, while retaining the mouse's movement like normal. However, such command ...
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Can I force my laptop to recognize its HDMI port?
I have an HP Zenbook Power G9 with Ubuntu, which comes with an HDMI port.
My issue is that this port does not work. When I plug the cable into it, nothing happens and the extra screen stays black.
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intel graphics stuck
Crossposted from: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1469605/intel-graphics-screen-stuck?noredirect=1#comment2576180_1469605
I have a laptop with intel integrated graphics and an nvidia graphics card. ...
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How to convince openSUSE Tumbleweed to NOT throw out NVIDIA display driver on updates
I installed NVIDIA's Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver for my Laptop's NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M/PCIe/SSE2 since I had issues with display a few weeks ago (I don't remember exactly which; I think ...
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Force graphics to run on specific GPU
My computer has one integrated graphics card and 2 Nvidia RTX 3070 GPUS. I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and nvidia-driver-530.
lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation AlderLake-...
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Is it possible to reverse the screen, like in a mirror, with only 1 monitor?
On Windows, there are a few apps that can switch the graphics onscreen left to right (and vice versa), but to my knowledge, they all require at least 2 monitors. It seems like, because of the way ...
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Standard pixel format Linux VA-API
Is there a standard (or de facto standard) pixel format in the va api that both software and drivers needs to implement as a minimum?
I currently trying to debug va-api implementation between software ...
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How to use a dedicated AMD/Intel GPU by default?
There are a bazillion questions all over the internet, and in all cases the answer seems to be "simply open NVIDIA settings" which is quite pointless if you have an AMD or Intel Arc GPU.
Is ...
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How to reenable Nouveau after uninstalling NVIDIA proprietary drivers?
Problem:
My Nvidia graphics card requires 340.x drivers, so I tried installing an older-than-most-recent driver to see if it could help me. It did not help, and now I that I removed it, I cannot get ...
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Getting information for a graphics card in a Wayland session?
In the context of generally troubleshooting Wayland, for this given graphics card:
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd ...
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Hardware recommendations for new Debian 11 desktop: Mostly free graphics drivers?
I'm looking for a new desktop (tower) system to run Debian 11. I'd like to avoid having to download proprietary drivers for the hardware to work properly.
Requirements:
Reasonably recent CPU (Intel ...
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How to reboot the nvidia graphics without having to reboot system?
I have an issue which I believe to be my graphics driver crashing. Mostly this happens when I try to run a game or steam.
When I try to open steam and click on the icon it just won't open. Also when I ...
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How do I force Virt-Manager to use the hosts' llvmpipe renderer so the guests get to use 3D acceleration?
I'm using virt-manager and set "3D Acceleration" as per what was recommended, but I'm getting this error:
qemu_gl_create_compile_shader: compile vertex error 0:2(10): error: GLSL ES 3.00 is ...
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What is OpenGL's relationship with the DRM
I recently got into OpenGL and I was researching on how opengl can either render directly or indirectly using the X window system.
What I understood was that, in order to render directly it uses ...
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Use both integrated and discrete graphics card with different screens?
In a Dell XPS 15 9570 laptop with Linux, which has an UHD Intel® 630 integrated graphics card and also an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q one, when a monitor is connected and both screens used, what ...
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I need lightweight Linux distro with VM support for an old processor
I have an old notebook with an i3-2350M (2 cores, 4 threads, and integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000) and 4 Gb RAM, and a decent SSD.
The mother does not supports more ram.
I only use it, mostly for web ...
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Debian using llvmpipe drivers instead of nvidia drivers
Recently I have been trying to play Minecraft on my computer, it has been running slow at 20 fps and when I looked at the debug information it said it was using llvmpipe mesa compatibility drivers. I ...
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How would I install CSFML 2.5 on Linux?
For the last couple of days, I have had a lot of trouble installing CSFML 2.5 on Linux.
First of all, I tried to install CSFML by calling:
sudo apt-get install csfml-dev
This only partially worked, ...
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How to update grub file from ubuntu bootable stick in order to disable flawed graphics card kernel
I have updated latest official nvidia drivers for my GT525M on Dell Vostro 3750. After quick prompt to update my kernel it succeeded and my system will not boot anymore. I reinstalled the system and ...
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What can prevent or inhibit my system from acting on magic sysreq keys when enabled?
I've been getting weird behavior from my freshly-installed ubuntu 22.04 system whenever I play video games. Often, especially when my system has been up for more than a few minutes, my system appears ...
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How is Linux able to display when driver is missing?
I tried installing Linux on a computer with an Nvidia GPU without bundling the necessary driver just for fun. Although I expected an error or a blank screen, to my surprise, I could install Linux just ...
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Bare Arch Linux with temporary X server for applications
Not sure if this is the right place to post this question, but I'm pretty confident that it will interest some people here.
I am a pretty big CLI user, what I mean by this is that 90% of my workflow ...
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How can I make a Sabrent usb-dh88 work with Ubuntu 22.10?
The monitor display when using the live usb, but when I installed kubuntu the monitor is black and isn't detected. I do see the usb device in the system profiler.
Any advice on how to resolve this?
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Can't open display on AWS Linux 2
I'm new to AWS and Linux, and I'm having trouble opening up xeyes (or anything else) on the GUI.
I've tried setting
$DISPLAY=:0.0, =:1
and the result from running
env | grep SSH
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Low resolution grub arch nvidia
This is not a big deal but this has been frustrating for a while now.
My graphic card is an RTX 3070
When I boot with grub I am stuck with a very low resolution, probably 1024.
I checked the command ...
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Graphics freeze after updating to a new kernel (5.19) in Fedora 36
I am using Fedora 36 in a Dell Latitude 7430 laptop. These are the specs of my computer as per neofetch:
I have recently updated the kernel to the latest version (5.19.16) using dnf and since then ...
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Deepin/Debian Nvidia RTX Multiscreen Detect Error
I installed nvidia-settings on Linux. But I can run either my laptop screen or my screen connected via HDMI. Nvidia-settings cannot detect two displays at the same time. If I activate my screen ...
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Very low framerate since I switched from Mint to Debian
I just recently upgraded from Linux Mint to Debian, I haven't had any problems so far except one, I'm developing small games with Love2D and I noticed an absurdly low framerate while it was running ...
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i915 driver issue on kubuntu 22.04 with Intel Xe (TigerLake) graphics
I am experiencing issues with rendering in Kubuntu 22.04 after an update of various packages. The issue is that in booting with the i915 driver, the plasma task bar and also other items using direct ...
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Can I install a PCI graphics card on a motherboard that has onboard graphics?
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on an old computer which has an "M5A88-V EVO" Asus motherboard with onboard "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880 [Radeon HD 4250]" graphics ...
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Hardware acceleration with VA-API can't find the right drivers
I am using Debian Sid, kernel 5.19.0-1-amd64. My machine is a ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 with an integrated graphics controller and an NVIDIA GPU; here is the result of lshw -c display:
*-display ...
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low resolution after installing nvidia-cuda-toolkit from Debian 11 nonfree package (not from Nvidia site)
I installed Debian 11 on my desktop, and on first boot, the Noveau drivers worked fine and had the high resolution, though moving windows was slightly laggy as to be expected. I then installed the ...
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How can I test my GPU RAM integrity?
I would like to use something like memtest86 but for VRAM. I have some artifacts on the screen some times and I'm trying to rule out possibilities.
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Vulkan not working
( Also on Nvidia forum )
Fedora 36 with Gnome 42.2, everything up to date
Nvidia's latest proprietary drivers (515.57)
Nvidia Geforce GTX 745 and Intel Core i5-6400 (no integrated graphics)
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Setting specific video configuration for all users (RHEL 7.9 and nVidia RTX4000 w/nvidia driver)
Bottom Line Up Front: where do I need to go in RHEL to define a video configuration that applies to all users of the workstation?
My hardware setup is an nVidia RTX4000 driving a "standard" ...
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Setting screen temperature using sct
I'm trying to set the screen temperature using both sct (https://github.com/faf0/sct). This is the command i'm running to set the temperature to 5000°k:
sct 5000
and for a couple of seconds the ...
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Any screen sharing program freeze entire system after starting demonstration
i'm newbie to Linux.
First, when i tried to use some screen sharing app it just shows black screen. I swithced from Wayland to X11, and it started to work fine, but after a few seconds the system ...
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Enabling Hardware Acceleration in Arch Linux with Integrated Graphics
Basic Idea of my issue: trying to enable hardware acceleration on my arch system, but when verifying VA-API, I run into the following error:
$ vainfo
libva error: /usr/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init ...
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How to change Debian display resolution
I just installed Debian 11.6 and see that everything looks scaled up a lot.
I checked the size of the display and it is 800 x 600 which is quite big having it on my 4k monitor. But me having an NVIDIA ...
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Pop OS! No screen after suspend mode
I installed Pop OS! to my PC with a win 10. Everything worked fine... But i wanted to set my PC to suspend mode, and then it was OK. But i tried to log in, but it was no screen... (All peripherals ...
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Stuck in Starting arch 250.##
I have a USB stick with Arch Linux installed on it. The USB stick works well on a school PC and my gaming PC, but gets stuck in "Starting arch version 250.##" every time I try to boot it up ...
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How do I change the opengl renderer to point to a different device?
My display driver points to one type of graphics chip and my OpenGL renderer points to another type of chip, despite me actually having a single integrated graphics card. When I look up the graphics ...
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Very bad performance, choppy UI
I'm using Debian 11 on a fairly decent hardware setup. Unfortunately I'm seeing some really bad performance - browsing the web feels clunky, opening the Activities menu there are no animations and ...
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