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How to reset graphic drivers from command line
Thanks to @cl-netbox for instructions/assistance.
You did not provide any details about the hardware (desktop PC or notebook), especially about the GPU.
But you mentioned in your comment below ...
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How to install video card drivers (e.g., nvidia)
Easiest
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
That's it!
Manual method
The above command installs the latest drivers, but you may want to use a prior release, depending on how well your graphics card is ...
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How do I install the drivers for my Nvidia GTX 970?
First we should probably blacklist anything that could conflict. You don't have to do this, but a bad update later might do some damage otherwise.
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
At the end ...
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Booted my elementary OS but no GUI?
I had such an issue on my Freya HTPC installation. It was caused by some unsuccessful Nvidia driver installation. I fixed that by
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
which reverted to standard driver.
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Booted my elementary OS but no GUI?
I was running Elementary 5 in VirtualBox 6 (upgraded from 5) and the GUI stopped working.
Reinstalling elementary-desktop as suggested by @Jeroen using
sudo apt install --reinstall elementary-...
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Black screenshots on elementary OS Freya x64 with AMD graphics drivers
First, press Ctrl + Alt + F2, then press Ctrl + Alt + F7 and then take a screenshot.
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Intel graphics performance on Loki
The Intel Graphics has some settings you can fine-tune to improve performance or powersavings.
Long story short, if you want the best performance create /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf as root and add ...
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Intel core i7 6500 skylake - Chrome flickering/tearing
I had the same problem and i got to fix it by
*opening the terminal
*run upgrade
*run ¨ sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-intel
* run autoremove
and finally reboot
it fixed the flickering and ...
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Remove Nvidia Drivers
You can remove them by using:
sudo apt-get autoremove nvidia*
It will remove everything related to nvidia, so make sure to double check before continuing.
You can also try this:
sudo apt-get ...
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Loki freezes every few hours since monday 6/3
Solution: change the driver to original Nvidia driver instead of Nouveau driver. Issue was resolved.How To Switch to NVidia driver
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Black screenshots on elementary OS Freya x64 with AMD graphics drivers
This is a typical problem for AMD proprietary drivers. For it can not affect anybody, except AMD. Only one way out - use default free driver.
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Dell Inspiron 15 5559 Problem at shutdown and logout (Intel Skylake)
I found the solution. The problem is a driver issue with the Intel Skylake graphics chipset. You can solve it by upgrading to kernel 4.3 and upwards. For instructions to update to kernel 4.4 see here: ...
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Installing bumblebee on Freya
THIS IS AN UPDATE FROM MY PREVIOUS ANSWER, SINCE A LOT HAVE CHANGED IN ELEMENTARY FREYA
Note that this answer uses ppas, which isn't advisable in a elementaryOS set up. However, to my knowledge, ...
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32 bit AMD driver on 64 bit Freya
This is a bit technical, so let me know with a comment on anything you get stuck with but here goes:
Your 32 bit games might not be failing because of your driver but because 64 bit Ubuntu doesn't ...
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How to reinstall the default graphics driver after failed fglrx install?
if you can access to the command line just put this commands:
sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx*
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core
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Elementary OS is unstable when using with a 6th Gen CPU
Running the command sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-wily will upgrade your Kernel to 4.2, which solved many of my issues with Skylake.
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Application Windows are flickering when moving , closing and opening
I used to have the same issue, random flickering then after a search I found this. Try doing this commands:
sudo apt-get install mesa-utils
sudo mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
echo -e 'Section "Device"\...
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AMD GPU Pro on Loki (Ubuntu 16.04)
Edit the following file: amdgpu-pro-install
on line 74: (it is 74 for me)
# os_release
add that hashtag # to os_release
that calls a function to check for your system type (as far as I understand ...
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Desktop background glitch after unlock Nvidia 1070 GPU
I was running into the exact same issue recently. I found this bug report which mentions installing nvidia-370 from ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa. After doing that I'm able to lock and unlock my desktop ...
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I'm thinking of completely uninstalling Windows 10 and using Elementary OS full time but I have a couple questions
I can't speak to your specific issues, but Windows driver issues made me switch to elementary OS. I went from several major, unresolvable issues to just a few minor annoyances without needing to do ...
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Artifacts in background
What always works is disabling your NVIDIA card, see Bo rislav's answer.
If you need to use your NVIDIA graphics card and this happens, I would recommend executing gala -r from the Applications menu ...
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Intel core i7 6500 skylake - Chrome flickering/tearing
Finally with the help of the user 'I just look ilegal' do the purge of the xserver.
the steps where:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
sudo prime-select intel
sudo apt-get ...
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Vsync issue with switchable graphics ( nvidia 630m / intel hd 3000) on elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki (64 bit)
Assuming that you're using prime profiles and not bumblebee, you're wanting primesync described here: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/957814/prime-and-prime-synchronization/
To easily enable ...
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Install full Nvidia 1060ti Drivers
The easiest way is to use the graphics-drivers ppa.
You will have to run the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt install software-properties-common
That will enable you to add ppa's to ...
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Laptop Screen Blinks
There's workaround on this link:
https://github.com/elementary/greeter/issues/166#issuecomment-437144185
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NVidia Drivers problems
NOTE: The following may delete apps or change settings of programs that you've already installed. Make sure to have a backup of the important files.
Open a Terminal and execute the following:
First ...
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Intel GMA X3100 Driver
There is no "alternative driver" for Intel GPUs. Intel releases their Linux GPU drivers as Free Software and those are installed by default on your system. Your hardware might be simply too outdated ...
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Graphic card driver not available / supported (matrox)
M-Series cards have support for Linux, as the vendor specified on the Matrox webpage.
You can download the driver for your card from:
M-Series driver for Linux 64bits
To install just follow the ...
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Dell Inspiron 15 5559 Problem at shutdown and logout (Intel Skylake)
OK, so the problem can be solved much easier than installing a new kernel - namely by activating the proprietary drivers for AMD Radeon graphics card (called fglrx). You can choose between fglrx and ...
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Is elementary freya 0.3.2 (resp. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) compatible with the AMD Radeon R5 M335 graphics card?
It actually is compatible, but not with the open source xorg drivers that are activated by default. You have to use the proprietary drivers (called fglrx) which are included in the repositories. You ...
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