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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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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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Installing Nvidia drivers
You need to install the nvidia-352 package and you need to disable nouveau (open source driver for Nvidia graphics) in GRUB.
Press CTRL + Alt + F1 and log in by entering a username and password. ...
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Blurry fonts in Atom, Steam and GitKraken
Solution: It was neither Electron nor Elementary OS but the Nvidia driver. All I had to do was disable FXAA Antialiasing in the antialiasing settings. Now everything is sharp again: Atom, GitKraken ...
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Elementary OS running very slow
You are experiencing lag due to the lack or performance of the laptop. It is old. I am not one to say, throw away a linux flavor because of this, but seeing how graphical Elementary is, you might be ...
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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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Monitor settings do not work. Cannot disable integrated screen of the laptop
default integrated monitor is not always LVDS-1
first you should get overview of detected displays and their aliases by command
xrandr | grep " connected " | awk '{ print$1 }'
then cast
xrandr --...
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Some GUI elements missing on MacBook Pro 2015 mid 15"
Switching to the elementary dark theme solved the issue for me, see UI elements are not displayed
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Graphic glitches when changing windows
The solution you tried is for Intel displays, hence "Driver 'Intel'", you have Nvidia. Your login loop was a result of forcing X-windows to run the Intel driver.
Have you tried installing the ...
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Will elementary OS Loki support fglrx?
No.
AMD dropped the flgrx support for the version of the Xorg server that Ubuntu 16.04 ships with.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2016-March/016315.html
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Cannot Install Intel Proprietary Graphics Driver
I had similar problem (but I have Intel® HD Graphics 5500).
So thanks to your suggestion I faked the /etc/lsb-release with following contents:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=...
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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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Can I run Photoshop CC 2015 and other illustrator programs on elementary OS?
Well... You cannot really run professional CAD and Adobe applications on Linux.
You should either use a Mac or if you want to use Linux you should be prepared for some work. There are various options:...
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How to install nvidia graphics driver for nvidia 820m on loki?
First, check what drivers are avaliable for your system:
sudo ubuntu-drivers devices | grep -o nvidia-[[:digit:]]*
Then install the one you want (replace XXX with the correct number):
sudo apt ...
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Best place to store xrandr settings?
You can do one of the following:
Using the GUI:
Go to System Settings > Applications > Startup
Click the + button
Type in the xrandr command complete with its arguments
Creating a .desktop file and ...
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Elemetary OS 0.4 Loki, How Do I Fix Screen Tearing
Although the cause might of course be different, your description matches an issue I have resolved on my Asus Zenbook UX310UA-FC186R by installing a more up-to-date kernel from here. Instructions:
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Screen tearing on Loki [nvidia]
I have Nvidia GTX 765m, had screen tearing fixed. 2 things to do:
1) In Firefox open new tab, go to about:config and set gfx.xrender.enabled to true
2) Create a new folder /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and ...
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Cannot install Intel Graphics UHD 620
Whenever dealing with drivers, you first need to remember that elementary os 5.0 is based on Ubuntu 18.04. With this in mind, you might notice that the repository https://download.01.org/gfx/ubuntu/, ...
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The word "normal" has started appearing on the upper right corner of my apps
You must be having an nVidia graphics card. If so, open nVidia X Server Settings from the Applications menu, go to OpenGL Settings and uncheck "Enable Graphics API Visual Indicator".
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Best place to store xrandr settings?
You could add it to a file called ~/.bash_profile which fires when you log in. The issue with automating it is that it might misbehave if you aren't always in this setup, and also it'll run every time ...
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Flicker using browser and strange behavior with the mouse
SOLUTION: I was able to find a fix for this. It was weeks ago so I had to research again to find the command. Basically it seems to be related to the Intel graphics drivers on the Dell machines. I ...
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Installing messes up resolution
I finally find out how to correct this and I will leave it here for future reference for those who might be having similar issues.
I just followed the answer posted here https://askubuntu.com/...
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elementary OS 0.3.2 Freya (64-bit) (Ubuntu 14.04) black screen after Update
It may be due to kernel issues. Try to boot with an older kernel from grub menu as below.
Select Advanced options for elementary os
Select the kernel which u think is suitable
If that works, you can ...
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Screen tearing when logging from hibernate or suspend
If the graphics issues are only happening in your desktop background, I had the same issue and resolved it by upgrading to nvidia-370. The directions to do that are covered in another question.
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Laptop has one bad and one good graphics card
The system should detect the second graphics card, though you may need to disable the first (depending on how it's detected and why it's broken). Not sure which cards you have, but you might need to ...
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Loki OpenGL issue with VMWare Workstation 12.5
Virtual machines aren't well supported on elementary OS, but you should be able to install Intel drivers at least. I'm not sure what errors you received that you couldn't do the install on elementary ...
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How can i switch between Intel and Nvidia Graphics card?
First you need to install the official nvidia drivers:
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
Then, after rebooting, you can choose the card to use in the programm "NVIDIA X Server Settings" in the option ...
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Unknown display, low resolution
That would be an issue with your graphics card driver. The fix would be to install the driver appropriate driver for your gpu. Unfortunately there is no easy way to do it as I'm in your same situation ...
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Didn't show the clock and slowness
Try reinstalling it:
sudo apt remove wingpanel-indicator-datetime
sudo apt install wingpanel-indicator-datetime
That will remove and re-install the date "indicator" of the menu bar (known as ...
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