Ubuntu Installation :: How Do I Find Out Details About Graphics Chip
Apr 23, 2010
I'm trying to get 9.10 to work nicely on a Thinkpad Edge 14".Everything is working fine, except that I have issues with the intel graphics drivers.The monitor's native resolution is 1366x768 and I have Intel HD graphics card on it.I have changed my xorg.conf to use driver = "vesa", but now I get only a resolution of 1024x768.I tried to use xrandr to fix this, by adding a new mode etcetera, but this does not work - I believe because the driver is the issue.Also, doing Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6] gives me a blank screen rather than a console.
How do I find out the details about my graphics chip? Intel Corporation Arrandale Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)Maybe I should go more bleeding edge for my drivers? How do I do that?
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May 26, 2010
I'm having no end of problems trying to get 10.04 onto my older Toshiba Satellite A50 laptop that I use as a spare laptop round the house. The laptop previously dual booted with XP and Xubuntu fine. I wanted to give Lubuntu a go to see if it's performance was better on this older hardware. When installing I got the black screen of death, and also got the same problem with the Xubuntu CD. Research pointed me in the way of this article: [URL] I was able to boot the Lubuntu Live CD using the instructions outlined in method A.
Once installed however I rebooted and Grub seemed to be knackered. Just sent me to a recovery console of which I had no idea what to do. As I could no longer boot into Windows either I reinstalled Xubuntu 9.10 and all was fine. I decided yesterday to give it another bash this time connecting to my wireless from the live cd hoping it would download an update to fix this problem. Nadda, Grub this time did show and I was able to boot into XP, but upon picking my Linux distro I now get an unrecognised device error with a long string of charachters and then it dumps be back into the grub menu, choosing the recovery mode version does the same thing.
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May 11, 2015
If you have a Radeon graphics chip and upgrade to Jessie, install firmware-linux-nonfree, before rebooting.
My dist-upgrade to Jessie seemed flawless until I rebooted and couldn't get into X.
Seems Jessie boots into Gnome by default, but Gnome now requires 3-D acceleration. For my Radeon graphics chip (ATI Radeon 3100), this requires firmware-linux-nonfree, which I didn't need before and was not installed as part of the upgrade.
A boot message alerted me to this need.
I was able to get X going with xinit. I used FVWM; for XFCE I believe the command is:
xinit /usr/bin/xfce4-session -- :1
and from there I installed the package firmware-linux-nonfree.
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Feb 3, 2010
I put Ubuntu 9.04 Linux on my computer a while ago and I found that my integrated graphics chip is going unrecognized. I've tried many ways to get it to "turn on" and be recognized, but nothing works
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Sep 30, 2010
Is it possible to do this? I'm just thinking maybe I can run KDE without using the GPU so that I can use the GPU for computation (CUDA). The system I'm thinking of using is a laptop with Nvidia GTX260M video card. I've seen people talk about frame buffer, but I don't quite understand it because it seems that some people are talking about using frame buffer even when they have a video card on their system.
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Nov 18, 2009
Does CentOS 5.4 support Intel Q45 graphics chip? If it does not support, How do I install the driver manually?
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Apr 17, 2010
I was having trouble getting X.Org to work with the video card in a recently acquired laptop, so I decided to try to probe around the configuration of a Linux Live CD to figure out how to set up my kernel. I chose the Sabayon 5.0 Live DVD because it was the only one that I could find that was the same or newer than the 2.6.32 kernel I have installed on the laptop right now. Of course, the DVD booted right into GNOME without issue, unlike the hangs and crashes that I had been getting. So, I want to figure out what kernel driver this Live DVD is currently using, but I don't know how to. hwinfo doesn't shed any light on the matter, and lspci -vnn doesn't list a driver for my video device, though both methods correctly identify that I have an Intel 855GM video processor. How can I find out this information?
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Jan 7, 2010
I'm trying to set up my Evolution mail & calendar but I don't know what to put in the server box under Configuration in the setup wizard.
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Nov 20, 2010
I've been searching and haven't had any luck so far so I figured someone here's gotta know the answer to this. I'm troubleshooting why some of my MKV files will play audio on my WDTV and others won't. I'm suspecting it's got something to do with the audio codec inside the MKV. However, I don't know how to view what codecs are being used inside the MKV. Does anyone know of a good program or command I can run to view what's inside of the MKV
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Nov 20, 2009
Last night installed Fedora 12 64 bit KDE, but can't find the correct drivers for the above graphics card.
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Jul 28, 2011
I have 10.04 LTS installed onto an SSD and have a spinning disk for crud, and my brother wants to give me his old GA-PH67A-UD3 and 8GB of RAM if I buy an i7 2600 to put in it. The thing is, I'm happy with my GA-965P-DS3 with Q6600, so I don't actually need an upgrade. So, can I get away with replacing the mobo, chip, and RAM and putting the SSD in the equivalent SATA port on the new mobo (/dev/sda), and will it cope? Will the kernel detect a new board and chip and carry on accordingly? I'll have to remount my crud drive to the same mount point it expects, and if my user account as the same UID as the old system, I'm hoping that might cope, too. Of course, I might be suggesting complete evil, and if this was Windows, I wouldn't even dare think about it, but I have a sneaking suspicion that Linux might cope with this kind of change where Windows would fall over in a heap.
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Mar 19, 2010
Has anyone tried to install Karmic on a laptop that has HP's new Linux on a chip OS installed? I think it's a scaled down Splashtop desktop and at least a portion of the OS is hardware based. I sure wonder what would happen if/when I try to install grub and Ubuntu.
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Jan 8, 2011
Is there a way in ubuntu software center to see details while installing (like update manager that shows a terminal with apt command output)?
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Mar 31, 2010
When trying to install fedora, I frequently run into the problem where it locks up on boot.
The line that I am able to read right before it locks up is: "No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass!"
I was wondering if anyone has any similar problems or how I could fix this.
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Jan 26, 2010
I have just installed Ubuntu (9.10) and noted that in order to successfully run the trial off the CD I had to test in "safe graphics" mode. I have an NVIDIA GEforce 6600 GT card - which was discovered by Ubuntu in the first few minutes of the trial and so I activated the recommended driver and continued to test. After a successful trial I installed Ubuntu (dual partition Ubuntu / Windows XP), however, it seems the install didn't activate the required driver (as part of the process) and so I'm unable to get into my newly-installed Ubuntu at all. All I get is a flashing tty screen asking for my username and password - however it's erratic and won't recognise what I type. So - I'm stuck in a catch-22 as there doesn't seems to be a safe graphics mode option via the start (GRUB?) menu list.
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Oct 13, 2010
I asked around about in the now closed thread: [url]
For about half a year ago, is not present in 10.10. That is I can now use the Dell U2711 monitor at its full resolution, using a Radeon HD 4550 (RV710) card, with acceleration and without the image beeing distorted, using the open xorg radeon driver.
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May 10, 2010
I have installed these OS's in this order:
1 - Vista
2 - Ubuntu Server 9.04
3 - Ubuntu Desk 10.04
4 - BT4
I recently upgraded my most often used OS (#3) to 10.04 version and it updated GRUB to GRUB2 as part of the dist-upgrade. I have a feeling that I wasn't careful enough when installing BT4 or I made a mistake in the partitioning. I had plenty of space that was free waiting to be used by some other os and I designated some of that space for BT4.
When I got it all installed (off of a USB live boot) I rebooted and noticed it was back to grub one. The Vista install and the Ubuntu Server install both work still... but the recently updated (to Grub2) Ubuntu Desk install now hangs immediately after selecting it and pressing enter in Grub. I can mount the partition within BT4 just fine and see that all my data is still there, it just won't boot.
What I've tried Using BT4 to install Grub2. (no luck) Installing Grub1.5 back after finding Grub2 didn't work. (no luck) My plan When I get home from work today I'm going to take the "quiet" option off of the boot command in Grub for that Ubuntu OS and see if there's any error it's dumping before it hangs.
Hope that someone has had this issue before and can just tell me a straight forward way of resolving this issue. I'd prefer to use GRUB2 as my boot loader.
Cliff Notes Had other OS's installed Updated to newest Ubuntu (installed GRUB2 as the new bootloader)Used some spare disk to install BT4 New Ubuntu that used Grub2 is now the only OS that won't boot
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Feb 21, 2011
yum installation and configuration in details on Redhat / Centos 5.0
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Jan 28, 2009
I am trying to install Fedora-ds on Fedora Core 10 and I am getting a weired error.it just says check the log file for more details and in the /tmp/setupXX.log
[09/01/28:16:01:35] - [Setup] Info Administration port
[09/01/28:16:02:00] - [Setup] Info 9830
[09/01/28:16:02:00] - [Setup] Info The interactive phase is complete. The script will
[code]....
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Feb 17, 2011
It found it in 10.04 on its own, in 10.10 will it do the same?
something went wrong with my upgrade I'm running in safe graphics mode even though I'm in my regular desktop session.
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Sep 20, 2010
If I use xdpyinfo I see details for the internal display for my laptop. Q1: Where do I find the details for the "external monitor" port so that I might connect a reasonable projector or monitor? Q2a: Do those details exist only AFTER I connect something? Q2b: Are there risks if the external something doesn't match up with what the video port supports? Q2c: Are there risks to the laptop presented by whatever external something I connect?
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Mar 9, 2010
I have been searching for ages for graphics drivers for my ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 graphics card. I have several software that need hardware accelerated 3D. I found several threads that deal with this issue, but none of them seems to help. I tried the following:
[code]...
I rebooted after each one and I still cannot get any hardware accelerated 3D; it is as if I installed nothing.
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Apr 15, 2010
How can I find video driver for nvidia geforce 320M graphics card for ubuntu 9.l0?
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Oct 20, 2010
I have a Slackware 13.1/64-current system running the 2.6.35.6 kernel that I have installed the most recent nvidia drivers for (as of yesterday or day before) 260.19.12. If I boot up into run level 4 after running nvidia-xconfig in a console and run glxinfo as root I get:
Quote:
bash-4.1# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig
If I edit /etc/profile or /home/username/.bash_profile and add the following:
Quote:
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=X
I have set both X=0 and X=1 as reported by [URL] I get the screen of information except it says
Quote:
direct rendering: No (LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT set)
my lspci -v for the graphics card looks like this:
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device 2353
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
[code]....
I am sure I missing something from my xorg.conf but at this point I am not sure what I have been searching on this for days to no avail. From the log the only thing that looks like is a problem is it doesn't load the keyboard and mouse but it gets loaded later on in the file.
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Oct 10, 2010
Is there a way to use my nvidia chip in my eee pc 1215n?
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Sep 23, 2010
Is there a way to see details for a packet before updating it?
Like, if you do:
It will give you a list of packets that can be updated, but you don't know to what version and why.
How can I fund out, before updating, what is the version that the new packet will have.
Here I am talking about updates made from the command line.
On a Desktop system, you have that nice list in update manager, and if you click on an item you can see the new version and some details (what will fix, links..)
How can I find these info in cli?
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Jan 1, 2011
I am running UBUNTU / Windows Dual Boot on a HP Pavillion computer. My problem is that on the windows side I have lost sound and internet ( Via Ethernet ). Everything works fine in UBUNTU. So I guess I need to reinstall Ethernet and Sound drivers. Problem is how do I establish what drivers I need - Ethernet card , and Sound card.
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May 2, 2011
I would like to convert all my mp3 to ogg file. I got a script by googling. Script is
Code:
for fic in *.mp3
do
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mv $fic mp3/
done
But the problem is the ogg doesn't contains the details like title artist, album art etc. Ogggconvert help me to do that but there is no cli for that. Is there any script to copy details of mp3 to ogg
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Nov 30, 2010
I have a binary file which display a lot of message when I run that binary. This binary file is statically linked with many files which are unknown to me. Is there any way to know from which file (obj or static lib) does these printf come from?
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Oct 22, 2010
I am trying to connect a Garmin eTrex to my Maverick notebook. I am using a usb to serial convertor, which appears to use a well known chip set and is recognised:
Code:
Oct 22 07:44:16 scamper kernel: [ 1068.953367] usb 5-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
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