Hardware :: Run Some Graphical Programs It Gives Weird Graphics?
Apr 3, 2010
i have a Toshiba Satellite A355-S6925 laptop i removed Windows and installed Ubuntu 64bits on it. It works great. the problem is when i try to run some graphical programs it gives me weird graphics.. i looked into it and it seems that my graphic card wasn't installed correctly.. please help. here's my "lspci -v" PS: i'm kinda a newbie in the whole linux drivers thing.. i googled and all i could find was windows drivers...
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linkage@dominate:~$ sudo lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff00
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
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At the very least this affects Fedora, Ubuntu and Xubuntu. Windows is not affected. Outside of startup/shutdown the system is fine.
Started with Lucid where my file system would go corrupt every week or so. Now I'm on Natty and it's 10x worse..
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File system sometimes becomes read only and corrupt too when this happens.
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Things to keep in mind:
-I've downloaded the automatic updates through Ubuntu Software Center. -I'm fairly new to Ubuntu(still learning). -Provide as many details in, if, you post a possible solution. -I'm only using Ubuntu 10.10 as my OS, no dual-boots with Windows or any other OS.
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Current usage: Unknown
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