Recently, my computer has been uninstalling its current graphics driver and replacing it with that of a different type of graphics card. It goes from AMD Catalyst version 15.7.1 to an AMD Radeon driver (I don't know exactly which as it wont open due to me having the wrong type of hardware for it).  At the moment, I am uninstalling the graphics driver with  then running the  program, and installing the driver it recommends. However this seems only to be a temporary fix, because it has usually uninstalled the Catalyst driver and replaced it with the Radeon one by the end of the next day (I have reinstalled the driver 5 times this week already).  On  from a few months ago, I was told to use the Catalyst driver for the graphics, when in had a problem with OpenGL not working.  Computer Specs:  Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64 bit  Processor: Quad core AMD A8-5557M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 2.10 GHz  RAM: 8.00GB (7.19GB Usable)  Display Adapters: AMD Radeon HD 8550G, AMD Radeon R9 M275X    Thanks in advance for any help.
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Every time Windows 10 runs updates (which I see no way to control), it updates my graphics driver.  I like the old one because it is faster.  So, I have to reinstall it.  This is getting to be a pain.  Is there any way to stop Windows 10 from updating it again?
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The proprietary NVIDIA drivers "disappeared" with my latest update:    The option of "Proprietary drivers for devices" is correctly set under the "Ubuntu Software" tab. I have the graphics-driver PPA (ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa) correctly added to my sources.  Any ideas on how to bring the proprietary drivers back?  PS1: I need them because some of the games I play under wine don't work without them, for whatever reason.  PS2: Also, this feels like it should have a straightforward answer, but I've been looking online for a while without luck.
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I bought my computer two years ago. In 2.79 or earlier I can see my quadro 6000 listed in the CUDA settings but now, starting with 2.80 I cannot see it. Is there any way to fix this problem? I am using Windows 10 and I already updated my driver, but still, no change.  Thank you!
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I have NVIDIA Geforece 7025 / nForce 630a integrated gfx card on my UBUNTU 12.04.And I have 4 options in Additional drivers:    NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 173)   NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates)(version current updates)  NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current)[Recommended]  NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates)(version 173 updates)   I am currently using the First option.  My Problem is there I can't update the version 173 to the latest version of drivers using xswat PPA. Whenever I do it and reboot but the NVIDIA xserver sttings always shows me the same version.  Which option would allow me to update my drivers to the current version?
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I recently installed the proprietary Intel drivers for my Toshiba Satellite A105 s4284 running Ubuntu 14.10. Nouveau was working just fine, I was just attempting to make it so that I was able to run CS:S (no need for explanation on that.)  Long story short, I went and downloaded the Intel Graphic Drivers for Linux* from . After downloading and installing the .deb, I ran intel-linux-graphics-installer which opened up a window that downloaded &amp; installed the open Intel drivers. I then rebooted, and it's slow. Very slow, especially on 3D effects and when I hit Alt+Tab.  Now, I don't know if the previously installed Nouveau drivers are conflicting with these new Intel drivers (if that's the issue, what should I do about fixing it?) What I do know is that my system isn't behaving right and I want it to (obviously.) If removing the Nouveau drivers isn't the solution, how can I safely remove the just-installed Intel drivers?  Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Recently Intel released their opensource driver tool () which auto-selects the right drivers for your intel chipset (in my case, I was using the i915 driver).  Because I started using Steam on Linux to play some older games I thought I would use the Intel 'official' drivers to ensure I get the best performance. Unfortunately, since installing the drivers, the computer fan is very loud and the battery doesn't last that long (it's cut battery life in half). On top of that, there's no noticeable difference when playing games on Steam.   My question is, how do I revert back to the original drivers?   If I run the Intel graphic driver installer I get the following output in the terminal (not in the GUI) so I assume I will somehow need to run apt-get with some type of downgrade flag (I'm not sure how to do that) against these packages.  install: [i915-3.4-3.2-dkms libdrm-nouveau2] upgrade: [libcairo2 libcairo-gobject2 libcairo-script-interpreter2 libdrm2 libdrm-intel1 libkms1 libva1 libva-x11-1 libva-glx1 libva-tpi1 libva-egl1 vainfo libxatracker1 libgbm1 libegl1-mesa libegl1-mesa-drivers libopenvg1-mesa libgles1-mesa libgles2-mesa libglapi-mesa libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental libosmesa6 libglu1-mesa i965-va-driver libva-intel-vaapi-driver xserver-xorg-video-intel libwayland0]   When I look at the install logs though, it seems there's much more than that.   Any assistance on this would be most appreciated.
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I have a Samsung NP-QX411. It has two graphics cards, Intel and nVidia. The Intel drivers were quickly found and is fully functional. But nVidia, I have tried installing several drivers in different ways. But I can not run it without success. I do not understand how Ubuntu has by default the switch Hybrid Graphics option. What should I do?
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I use:   HP Pavilion dm4-3001tx Entertaiment Notebook PC Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit   In  it has two graphic cards.     But in  it only has 1 graphic card.    And in several programs, it tells me that I need to configure my graphic card for better performance. Let's take nox for instance    So, I'm guessing my AMD drivers is not installed properly.  I did reinstall my OS but I'm using the same windows as before (which is windows 7 64bit) and a driver from HP official site. I've also installed HP Support Assistant to check my drivers but everything is seems to be updated (according to HP Software).  Any solution to show my AMD graphic into dxdiag, or remove nox graphic suggestion (as it means no problem with my graphic cards anymore)?
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I have been on quite the odyssey trying to get steam to work.   I am using Ubuntu 15.04 and the linux 4.0.5 kernel. System specs:  Intel haswell quad core CPU AMD Radeon 7870 Graphics Samsung 850 EVO SSD 16GB Memory  I was able to get steam to work in 14.04LTS, but I had other problems with that version; namely flash issues in chrome. So I updated to 15.04 and my system is more stable (except for steam, there is always something...)  I have tried removing various lib files to no effect. I have removed and installed steam a few times and it doesn't appear to be working.   I tried switching to the proprietary drivers, but that causes my system to hang when it boots. In order to fix it I completely removed and purged fglrx from my system. I attempted to reinstall the proprietary drivers via command line according the ubuntu page instructions, and ran into the same error, so I am stuck with the open source drivers.  I can only assume that my card is no longer supported by the proprietary drivers, which is frustrating.   Before I removed the proprietary drivers I got the same error as these guys:   Now that I have removed the proprietary drivers I am getting missing lib errors, which I guess is not surprising:  libGL error: unable to load driver: radeonsi_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast  I am about ready to give up and am seriously considering buying an Nvidia card. If anybody has any suggestions on what else I can do, I would really appreciate it.
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I tried running DxDiag (DirectX diagnostics), and I noticed that my graphics card is set to the onboard one that comes with the Core i5 processor (some Intel HD stuff).  On my computer, I also have a dedicated graphics card (an Nvidia 310). No serious gaming stuff, I know - just for programming.  However, I would still love to know how to switch to that dedicated graphics card instead.  My laptop is an MSI CX720.
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I recently made the switch to Ubuntu. Everything on my laptop works fine except my hybrid graphics card. It is Intel graphics combined with Nvidia GeForce GT650M. I tried Bumblebee, but primusrun doesn't work (segmentation fault, core dumped) and optirun works with glxspheres64, but steam games look worse with optirun than with Intel graphics (e.g. Surgeon Simulator 2013 runs fine with Intel and hangs a lot with optirun)   I tried Nvidia Prime, but it gives me a black screen on startup after install, so I can't do anything and have to power off my PC with the power button. I also tried nvidia-prime 0.5 on Ubuntu 14.04, and then I get 'low-graphics mode' and I can't get to Unity.
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Yesterday's apt update included the 4.18.0-14-generic kernel. On a couple of my Ubuntu 18.10 MATE laptops (older DELL and Samsung models . . . I can't recall the models; they're at a different location), when they rebooted, I was greeted with a blank screen. Evidently something went awry with the video driver compatibility.   Anyone else experience a problem similar to this on older machines?  I had no problem with my newer laptop (DELL Latitude E6530 running Ubuntu 18.10 MATE). Was able to work on both older laptops using the old Shift-key boot trick to get to the Grub menu's Advanced options and switching back to the machine's 4.18.0-13-generic state. Never had this happen before.   Guessing I'll have to wait until the next iteration of the kernel for a fix? Or is there something I can do in the meantime to "patch" those two older laptops?  TIA.  [In response to the request for information about the graphics driver...]  $ inxi -G -M Machine:   Type: Laptop System: SAMSUNG product: R530/R730/R540   Mobo: SAMSUNG model: R530/R730/R540 BIOS: Phoenix    v: 08JV.M029.20100621.hkk date: 06/21/2010  Graphics:   Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel    Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.1 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa    resolution: 1366x768~60Hz    OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile v: 2.1 Mesa 18.2.2  $ inxi -G -M Machine:   Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude E5400   Mobo: Dell model: 0D695C   date: 04/29/2009  Graphics:   Device-1: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel    Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.1 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa    resolution: 1280x800~60Hz    OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express v: 2.1 Mesa 18.2.2   That's all I can provide. I don't know any other command magic to display graphics info.
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So when I had my old laptop with discrete GPU, I always had a choice in Windows right-click menu. For example, I could choose which app should run Adobe Photoshop or certain game.  Now I have a PC with both integrated (Intel HD graphics) and discrete GPU (geforce 730), but there is no option which GPU should run which apps. Why is that?
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I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and I notice that in the "Additional Drivers" tab of "Software &amp; Updates", the latest versions of NVIDIA drivers I can install are   version 367.57 from nvidia-367 (proprietary) version 370.28 from nvidia-370 (open source)   Aside from the fact that I don't know what "proprietary" and "open source" mean here, I also don't see an option to select the driver version based on my actual graphics card. I'm using GTX 1080 and the current Long Lived Branch version is 375.20; will the Ubuntu graphics PPA be updated eventually, or will I have to manually install 375?
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I just ordered the Nvidia GTX card. I have a dilemma, though. Should I keep using the driver which is available in "additional drivers" in Ubuntu, or should I install the driver from the Nvidia site?  So which driver is the best for me?
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I am planning on doing a fresh install of Ubuntu and want to know what is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Driver?      There are multiple valid answers for this question spanning over several versions of Ubuntu. For your convenience an index of each below:
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As expected, Nvidia drivers have reduced my customizations. I can't login to Unity 3D session. I can't find any content to help me to uninstall the driver and I don't know what to do as I have never uninstalled them before.