Questions related to graphics, in particular getting graphics cards to work. Please tag your exact graphics card version as well if you know what it is.
Questions tagged [graphics]
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How can I tell, how well my graphics card performs on Ubuntu?
I have a pretty beefy graphics card with 4GB of memory etc. But I can see the YouTube videos stutter sometimes and have a poor framerate (although none get dropped).
I feel like with a decent graphics card this shouldn't happen. Is there a way to…
Minix
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What should I do before changing graphics card?
I'm thinking about buying a new graphic card.
What should I do before removing the old one, other than removing proprietary drivers?
psylockeer
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Graphical distortions on high res / high refresh rate monitor
Ever since upgrading to a 1440p 144hz monitor, Ubuntu has been displaying strange graphical distortions. This is one example:
This doesn't happen on Windows, therefore I think this is an OS-specific or software problem and not a hardware defect. It…
Daniel
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Ubuntu on low powered laptop
First off, I am new to Ubuntu. I come from a Windows background (DOS before that) and am loving it so far. I installed it on an older Dell laptop that I wanted to get another year out of. I set this machine up primarily as a LAMP development…
zkent
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package containing stb_image.h?
Have just moved some development from a Fedora system to Ubuntu, but I'm having a few problems.
I cannot find which package provides stb_image.h. On Fedora it was something starting stb or stbi, but nothing like that seems to exist with the synaptic…
j harris
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How do I fix these "diagonal tears" that appeared since I upgraded to 20.10?
Soon after I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.10, I've been experiencing these "diagonal tears" of sorts. I tried to reinstall with version 21.04, but it didn't work.
Here's what I have on my computer:
Intel pentium
Mesa drivers
KDE Plasma 5 desktop
This is…
Jace Somers
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Refresh Rate Nvidia
Can someone explain to me how to make my Nvidia settings stick when I change the Nvidia settings to use 120hz? After a reboot the setting is lost and I have to manually go and change it to 120hz every time.
john smith
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How to find my Graphics card's Memory
sudo lshw -C display
shows ...
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 09
width: 64…
user3798498
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Messed up my hybrid graphics configuration
I was trying to make the switch possible between my Intel and Radeon AMD graphic card following this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1930450, but apparently the installation of the packages messed up my default configuration (yeah,…
Néstor
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Graphics experience?
Hi there.
I Have a question about a option in system preferences.
If i go in Details and select Graphics, i can find tis 2 options:
Driver (mine is GTX470/etc...)
Experience (mine is standard)
My question is, if there are other types of graphics…
Mariusz B.
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only one resolution option 480 x 620(4\3)
I have installed oracle virtual box on my HP laptop and set up a virtual hard drive with 21GB of memory. However I cant get the resolution to change from 480 x 620 (4/3). the laptop has a 2GB Nvidia GEFORCE'GT635M
seamus
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Very resilient graphics bug
I've spent the past month or so at work using a box that seems cursed.
Backstory: We develop a piece of very graphics-heavy software, which uses lots of OpenCL, CUDA, and so on. Hence, we place high demands on our graphics hardware. This also means…
Moop
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Freshly installed Ubuntu 14.04 and is very slow
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my desktop It's an Intel Pentium 4 processor (Single Core) at 2.80Ghz, 1GB RAM, and for the Graphics its Intel 865G x86/MMX/SSE2 OS is 32 bit.
Boot up is quick and fast, but running anything is slow, it fades in/out slow.…
Darkmage
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Why is my screen tinted blue?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on an HP laptop with a broken screen. I have it hooked up to an external monitor. It's been running fine this way for close to a year, but now the screen is tinted blue. I've checked monitors, cables, even borrowed an…
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Disabling autoscaling when the text inside gets bigger than the object in Dia (diagrams editor)?
When the text gets longer than, for instance, a circle.
It just scales the circle. Is there any way to make the text go to the next line?
wyc
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