I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my DELL G3 (now upgraded to 20.04.2). Everything worked fine, but after installing my graphics card driver (460) the background became fuzzy (Nvidia 1650Ti). I downloaded the driver through Additional Drivers. It was using Nouveau before.  Laptop Specifications:  Dell G 3 (2019) NVIDIA   (1650 Ti) 460 driver Ubuntu (20.04.2)  After turning on I have to change the wallpaper to remove those fuzzy things. I have tried using wallpaper with less / more memory but there was no change. Also tried changing resolution, but no change. Sometimes even font appear distorted in the same way. Please suggest proper solutions. Wallpaper without distortion (after changing wallper to default):  Wallpaper after restarting laptop:
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I have recently upgraded Ubuntu 19.10 to latest LTS Ubuntu 20.04. After updating, I get serious artifacts on my screen. Every time I reboot (or log-in), my screen is fuzzy or scrambled (picture attached):     This is temporary. The fuzzy screen goes away when I change the background. But it reappears the moment I reboot or log back in.   I have Intel HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2).  The output of lspci -nn |grep -E 'VGA|Display' is:  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] [8086:1916] (rev 07)   Update:   On enabling Wayland in Ubuntu 20.04 and logging in to, these artifacts are however cured.   This is okay for now, but I am not sure about Wayland as I have not yet used it before.   Is there a way to correct the graphic issue with normal Ubuntu startup?
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I am using Ubuntu 16.04 with GTX 1080. On my first boot, the screen turn black after I selected Ubuntu in grub. After I added nomodeset, the black screen gone however it only shows the Ubuntu default background image. It can't reach the login screen.
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I have a laptop with ATI Radeon 6770M HD Hybrid graphics card. In Ubuntu 12.04, I installed the fglrx driver through "additional drivers" and it worked. (I can even switch GPUs). But in the new Ubuntu 12.10, after installing, Unity won't load.   Only the mouse and the wallpaper. If I initialize the settings sudo aticonfig --initial then after rebooting it gives a warning saying I'm in low graphics mode! How to fix this?  Earlier I used software source to install the drivers. But when using the terminal, I got this warning :   update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf because link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf is broken   Update : Filed a bug report in launchpad :
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So I've been pulling my hair out over this for the last couple days now, I can't seem to find any solutions that work. I've fresh installed Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 on my system which has no other OS's running on it. Everything's fine aside from the fact that the default Nouveau display driver seems to be causing the UI to freeze sporadically every now and then. No problem right? Just install the proprietary drivers for my GPU and we should be golden? Well here's the thing, no matter how I try to get my GPU's drivers installed I always seem to hit some sort of issue. Here's what I've tried so far:   Switch to the proprietary driver from within the 'Software &amp; Updates' app in Ubuntu. For me the only option available is the 'NVIDIA binary driver - version 375.66 from nvidia-375 (proprietary, tested)'.    After selecting this driver it goes through the install process, asks me to 'configure secure boot' by entering a password, etc. This all seems to work fine initially until I reboot, but then before I see the login screen it seems to open a virtual terminal (usually accessed via alt+shift+F1), but then immediately boots me back to a black screen where it will flash this terminal for a split second every 4 seconds or so. I can access this terminal by using alt+shift+F1, and go on to use it as normal, but it will continually boot me back out to the black screen every few seconds. The only way I can solve this is to keep accessing the terminal each time it boots me out while I purge the nvidia drivers using sudo apt purge nvidia-*. After purging I'm then able to access the login screen and access my Ubuntu again as normal, besides having to reboot to presumably activate the Nouveau drivers again otherwise the resolution is all messed up and only one of my three monitors has anything displayed on it.    Using the steps listed  I download the latest stable/certified driver for my GPU (which as of writing this is version 384.69). However on step 3 where it instructs me to run the driver using sudo sh, I reach an issue where the installer informs me that I need to disable the Nouveau driver in order to continue. I've tried everything from uninstalling Nouveau using 'sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau` to blacklisting Nouveau using the steps listed , by editing the 'nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf'.    Unfortunately no matter what I do to try and disable Nouveau the installer always informs me that the Nouveau driver is enabled and needs to be disabled in order to continue. What's funny is that I managed to install the driver using this method once before, but for the life of me I can't get it to work again.    Finally, I've attempted to install the driver by installing the PPA. I run sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa, sudo apt update, and finally going back into the 'Software &amp; Updates' app and select the 384.69 driver. However after going through the install process the same issue as described in my first method (1.) occurs.    I've also tried switching between gdm3 and lightdm with all 3 methods to no avail. I'm at a complete loss as to what to do. If anyone has any possible solutions I'd love to hear them, because right now I'm at the end of my tether.   If you require any further information just let me know and I'll be more than happy to provide it.   System info:   AMD FX-8350  Nvidia GeForce GT710 1gb  16gb RAM  Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 LTS
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I have a GTX 660M and Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit.  According to , the latest graphics driver for this card is version 410.66.  The  says  Current long-lived branch release: `nvidia-410` (410.66)   I have nouveau drivers installed at the moment according to lsmod and, apt-get purge 'nvidia*' does nothing.  I have done add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers and apt-get update and a reboot.  Running ubuntu-drivers devices gives this output  == /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 == modalias : pci:v000010DEd00000FD4sv00001028sd00000551bc03sc00i00 vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation model    : GK107M [GeForce GTX 660M] driver   : nvidia-304 - third-party free driver   : nvidia-driver-390 - third-party free driver   : nvidia-340 - distro non-free driver   : nvidia-driver-396 - third-party free driver   : nvidia-driver-410 - third-party free recommended driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin   Note this line:  driver   : nvidia-driver-410 - third-party free recommended   It looks like everything is ready to go to install driver version 410, but autocompleting apt-get install nvidia- indicates the highest available version is nvidia-390, and trying apt-get install nvidia-410 directly fails.  Why does apt not list the version 410 that the PPA and ubuntu-drivers both say is there?  And if I can't apt-get install nvidia-410, how can I install this 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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As Ubuntu 10.10 seems to neither detect my graphics card (Intel 82852/855GM) automatically nor use the corresponding Intel driver even after manually installing it, I am looking into manually configuring X (shouldn't I?). Where can I find the configuration files I need to edit?
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I was installing ubuntu-Gnome 16.04 on my Asus ROG GL522VW laptop with an nvidia GTX 960m graphics card, and stumbled upon a problem.  After installation, I don't even get to the login screen. Instead my screen just freezes. I had this problem before, and got my answer in this post:   So I booted with nouveau.modeset=0, and everything boots just fine. But after I use additional drivers to install the NVIDIA binary driver - version 361.42 from nvidia-361 (proprietary, tested), I only get a black screen when I try to boot regardless of whether nouveau.modeset=0 is set or not.  While the screen is black, when I try to access the command line with ctrl + alt + f1 all I get is this: A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes up (Xmin Xs/no limit) and no matter how much I will wait, it doesn't end and I have to reboot.  I followed the instructions in this post:   When I boot after reinstalling everything and choosing lightdm - it basically works but my login screen looks like a unity login screen, and when I insert my credentials it shows me a very bugged screen with all kinds of broken images with some of the things I had on my last boot, and after a few seconds my screen flashes on and off and it boots into my normal desktop, but still keeps spitting out system problem detected with only the option to close or report.  Also tried to install nvidia-355 and all kinds of versions, with no luck.  I wouldn't mind working with nouveau.modeset=0, but as far as I understand this disables my graphics card and doesn't utilize all of it's potential?  Any help or insight will be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the long post and if I should include more information please tell me what else I should include.  A huge thanks up front!  Edit: Reposted this question again and didn't know I can just edit the question to get it back up.  Edit2: Bumping again in a last effort to solve this issue  Please let me know if it is lacking information.
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I have a Dell Inspiron 17R 5737 with an Intel Haswell Core i5 4200U, and an AMD Radeon HD8870 graphics card (switchable).  When installing Ubuntu (after checking disk for errors) and choosing "Try without installing", there's a green tint on the whole screen (where it's supposed to be pink/purple). I thought it might just be an issue that wouldn't show up after installing it onto the hard drive, and so I went on with the installation without any problems. My computer rebooted and I booted Ubuntu for some tweaking.   But the green tint was still there. I tried plugging in my LG HDTV via HDMI and on that screen there was no tint, but it was still there on my laptop.  What I'm wondering is why this happens and if there's any way to fix it, because I would really like to be able to use Ubuntu.
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looks like this.  The icons show the desktop background behind them only after hovering over them. It doesn't happen all the time. The desktop became that way upon highlighting it, as you can see. I am currently using  as a stand in for my  while it is being repaired. I sent the Nvidia GPU in for repair because of this black background problem. Originally I had an Intel set up; I bought my Nvidia GPU just before building a new PC entirely. The parts I salvaged from my Intel system build were my PSU and the Nvidia GP I sent in. I never had this problem before I put the Nvidia GPU in my Intel build, but, now even in my AMD build and with an XFX card I still get this glitch/error. Note: I also salvaged my HDD and SSD from my old build. That could be the problem. All I have is Windows and it was a fresh install as of 2 or so months ago. This problem is (from what I can tell) cosmetic, I don't get any harmful system errors stops or glitches, but, I rather like my background so I’d like to have it fixed. As you can see in  I show the parts I salvaged from . Any part not shown in my Intel build was transferred from it to the AMD build. That’s all the information I have, though. Thanks to anyone taking the time to help.
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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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NB: Nvidia has released an official fix; please see ,  and/or .  Upon waking up Ubuntu 16.04 from Suspend, the following graphical glitches appear around all windows, context menus, and similar:      This is currently known to affect the following NVIDIA cards running the proprietary drivers:  NVIDIA GeForce 610M, driver version 375.39, 340.102 NVIDIA GT 630M, driver version 375.39 NVIDIA GTX 650, driver version 375.39 NVIDIA GT 740M, driver version 378.13 NVIDIA GTX 745, unknown driver version NVIDIA GTX 850M, driver version 375.39, 378.13 NVIDIA GT 940M, driver version 375.39 NVIDIA GTX 950M, unknown driver version NVIDIA GTX 960M, driver version 378.13 NVIDIA GTX 970, driver version 375.39 NVIDIA GTX 970M, driver version 375.39 NVIDIA GTX 980 TI, unknown driver version NVIDIA GTX 1060, driver version 375.26, 375.39, 378.09 NVIDIA GTX 1070, driver version 378.09  The above above list has been sourced from reports from other users here on AU,  thread, and  thread. NB: This is be no means an exclusive list. It probably effects nearly all Nvidia cards.  Furthermore, this issue has been replicated on a clean install where the only change was a software update and the installation of the latest NVIDIA drivers.  What is going on, and how can it be resolved?
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I have an Asus UL30JT. It has Nvidia Optimus technology which I am not really interested in. I currently rarely use this laptop with it being connected to power. And I want to be able to play video at high res, play games and do some OpenCL coding.  In the BIOS I switched it to NVIDIA only (non windows 7). Previously, this worked just fine, using the nvidia driver.  After upgrading everything was broken. I have added nomodeset and blacklist.nouveau=1 as kernel options. The nvidia drivers install without error. However they are not found/used.  jockey-text -l kmod:nvidia_310_updates - nvidia_310_updates (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use) kmod:nvidia_304_updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use) kmod:nvidia_313_updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use) kmod:nvidia_310 - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use) kmod:nvidia_304 - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)   Trying to load the module manually fails as well.  sudo modprobe nvidia FATAL: Module nvidia not found.   Xorg.0.log show the following:  [    12.028] Loading extension GLX [    12.028] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" [    12.037] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia [    12.037] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" [    12.037] (II) Unloading nvidia [    12.037] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) [    12.037] (==) Matched nvidia as autoconfigured driver 0 [    12.037] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 1 [    12.037] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 2 [    12.037] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 3 [    12.038] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 4 [    12.038] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout [    12.038] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" [    12.038] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia [    12.038] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" [    12.038] (II) Unloading nvidia [    12.038] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) [    12.038] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau" [    12.039] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nouveau   I have installed the kernel headers, of the correct kernel. I verified that the kernel options are in the grub configuration. I have purged all nvidia packages and tried to reinstall (multiple times...)  Currently I am at a loss. I have checked the following question:  But nothing there worked for me.
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When you boot from live CD, or doing the first boot after installing Ubuntu, splash screen looks awesome. But as soon as you enable nvidia-current driver, installed with apt-get, splash screen goes all crazy.  With crazy I mean that resolution is very low, font(I assume) is very weird and it all looks like it's been broken.  This happened with 10.04 and now again with 10.10.  How do I fix splash screen after enabling nvidia drivers?
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I have installed Ubuntu GNOME 15.10. I installed the nvidia tested proprietary driver and then I restarted. Afterr that I selected as primary GPU the Intel driver for normal use. However, when I enter a steam game(Portal) the graphics is bad so In order to play normal I have to switch manually to the nvidia driver again and reboot again. After the game I have to manually select as primary driver the Intel one and reboot again. It is so boring. QUESTION: How to automatically switch gpu graphics driver when I enter a game or something that needs more GPU?
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So I just installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my Dell XPS 13. When I get to the login screen it starts at 3200x1800 for a quick second, then I get a way lower resolution like 800x600 but as soon as I login it adjusts to 3200x1800. How would I get 3200x1800 permanently on my login screen? I didn't have this issue on 14.04.
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I have just updated (through Software Update) to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS from 15.10. There are random instances of screen flickering throughout usage. After noticing this issue, I installed Compiz Config Settings Manager, selecting Force fulls screen redraws (buffer swap) on repaint, which did nothing.   Is there any way this could be related to compiz settings or is this another issue?    EDIT: not fixed after clean install, upgrade to kernel 4.5.2, however screen flickering is reduced, it is every now and then (10 minutes apart). I will see if upgrading to kernel 4.6.0-994-generic will fix this.     EDIT: fixed as of kernel 4.6.2 generic,  currently running 4.7.2 without any issues.