I have an old AMD64 box that was working quite nicely on in 12.04 LTS with onboard Nvidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 chip but ONLY running Nvidia 302.7 which I learned the HARD way after trying just about every other driver. My son gave me an Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS card and my nightmare began.  To make a VERY long story short, the new to me graphics card ran just fine in the XP part of the dual-boot but Linux was Hell. Finally I gave up and "upgraded" to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in an effort to fix the problem. I'm about sixty hours in and removed the 8800GTS card. I just want my system to work again. Nouveau graphics so slow they look like they are in another time zone. Move the mouse, go get a cup of coffee, and when I come back, I see the cursor move. I know that sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-302.07.run has fixed my graphics problems in the past. However, I get the error that [...]/version.h does not exist, most likely reason is that source files in /lib/modules/3.13.0-32-generic/build have not been configured. HOW do I get them configured?  Yes, I have updated, upgraded, installed linux linux-headers-generic ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-standard ubuntu-desktop and linux-generic all without having a version.h file appear. And yes, I wiped my drive and made a fresh install of 14.04 after removing the 8800 card because the gui was horribly broken.  Can anyone offer help getting my box to work with just the onboard graphics? I do not care about the 8800 card. I am pretty sure if I can JUST install nvidia 302.7 that my life will return to the halcyon days of 12.04, but in 14.04. Thank you.
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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 have an ATI graphics card and I want to know if it is supported and what kind of drivers should I be running to get the best features out of it.  Is my card supported in Ubuntu and what drivers will work with my card?
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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've tried to install maybe ten Linux distros on my new PC, and every time I have problems with video drivers: black screen or visual artefacts.  I was able to install only Ubuntu 12.04.3 64-bit, but also with problems: black screen on startup (sometimes all was normal when I used Live mode before install, sometimes I was not able to load Live Mode - Ubuntu says that I have problems with video and gives me a choice with four elements, one of them "use safe graphics mode", but I even can't choose this - the system is frozen).   In tty I installed nvidia-current, but it didn't help me. Every boot I need to press ESC and enter rescue mode and just press Resume and after this the system boots normally. If I try to do a normal restart I get a black screen after Ubuntu logo again.  I tried switching nvidia driver in the options - I have version 319-updates and version 319 [Recommended], but neither works.  I have Palit GeForce GTX650, all updates.
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I recently installed 14.04.  But now I need a new driver for my nVidia GeForce GT 630. The former driver was rejected as not compatible with the 64-bit. I found that other driver and when I wanted to install it in the terminal with sh I was called first to stop the x-server. It cannot be installed with running x-server.  So how do I install them?
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Okay, I have an HP Envy 17 laptop that was preloaded with Windows 8.1. I ditched Windows in favour of Linux. My laptop comes with the NVIDIA Geforce 840m. I install Ubuntu 14.04, and go to the Additional Drivers tab, and my GPU is not detected. So I go to the Nvidia website, and was glad to see that they support the Geforce 840m. I followed a Youtube tutorial on how to install the Nvidia driver . All went well until the Nvidia installer said it did not detect a supported GPU. I then proceeded to install the PPA to see if that would activate my GPU. It does, and I am able to select different versions of the driver in the Additional Drivers tab. However, the moment I do anything that uses the GPU, the driver crashes. No matter what driver version I use, I get the same result. Please help, I do a lot of 3D modelling, and I don't want to go back to using Windows!!!
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After several years of using dual boot (windows to play and Ubuntu to work) I decided to just use ubuntu, but I have a problem after installing nvidia-drivers 331.20 and rebooting the screen is black, I have seen many solutions for this problem, in particular I have run the following command sudo apt-get purge nvidia* then sudo reboot after which I am ready to use ubuntu.  How can I fix this problem since I really want to play but the latest drivers (331.20) are the ones that are optimized for the 700 series.
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I followed  tutorial about Nvidia drivers installation and I accidentally forget to do 5th point (disabling nouveau drivers), so now I can't boot my system. I know I am idiot but is there anything I can do to fix this?  EDIT  My boot options are (I don't if this is correct or not)  Fedora (3.8.9-200.fc18.x86_64) other two with different version   When I press e to any of these I get lines setparams, then indenticated load_video, setgfxpayload, insmod 3x, set root, then if-else, linux, initrd. There is no line starting with kernel unfortunately.  Ok, I was able to unistall the drivers so I could boot with nouveau again.
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I've installed the  (beta) following the step in  for Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal. My system is 64 bit and my graphic card is an ATI RadeonHD 6670, this g.c. is Officially Supported (Catalyst &amp; Open Source), you can confirm that from this .  I don't have any problem, except the AMD testing use only watermark. I see the following frame in any stage into the OS (logged, unlloged, etc.) except in the terminals.     I found different versions of how to remove this image, but this change according to the system, so I want an answer from this popular (trusted) site.   How to solve this issue in Ubuntu 12.10 32b? This procedure is different in a 64b system?
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I recently updated the drivers for my NVIDIA GeForce video card to version 364.72 (or other version in the 364.xx series), and I'm now experiencing issues such as the following:   Games or other graphically intensive applications crash or hang I get BSODs that are associated with the graphics driver, e.g. nvlddmkm.sys or dxgkrnl.sys Graphical glitches such as missing or misplaced text or icons, display corruption, or a black screen occur The graphics driver crashes regularly, with the message "Display driver [...] has stopped responding and has recovered." The fan on my graphics card spins up to high speed, or the card makes excessive noise   Reinstalling the graphics driver did not help. What's going on?     This question comes up often and the answers are usually the same. This post is meant to provide a definitive, canonical answer for this problem. Feel free to edit the answer to add additional details.
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When I run a kernel or NVIDIA driver update on my 16.04, this triggers an initramfs rebuild which outputs the warning below:  Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8.1) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-34-generic W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/skl_guc_ver6.bin for module i915_bpo   I have a notebook with two graphics chips, an NVIDIA GeForce 940M and the Intel i5-6200U's integrated graphics.  The device in use is my NVIDIA card:  $ inxi -G Graphics:  Card-1: Intel Sky Lake Integrated Graphics            Card-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 940M]            Display Server: X.Org 1.18.3 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.03hz            GLX Renderer: GeForce 940M/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 367.35   Here's the output of lshw -c video, corresponding to my Intel graphics chip which should use that driver:      *-display                   description: VGA compatible controller          product: Sky Lake Integrated Graphics          vendor: Intel Corporation          physical id: 2          bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0          version: 07          width: 64 bits          clock: 33MHz          capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom          configuration: driver=i915_bpo latency=0          resources: irq:125 memory:a2000000-a2ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:5000(size=64)   The file in the warning does not exist, only those:  $ ll /lib/firmware/i915/ total 336 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Aug 11 13:24 ./ drwxr-xr-x 74 root root  32768 Aug 11 13:24 ../ -rw-r--r--  1 root root   5872 Jul 21 17:03 bxt_dmc_ver1_04.bin -rw-r--r--  1 root root   5872 Jul 21 17:03 bxt_dmc_ver1_05.bin -rw-r--r--  1 root root   8380 Jul 21 17:03 bxt_dmc_ver1_06.bin -rw-r--r--  1 root root   8380 Jul 21 17:05 bxt_dmc_ver1_07.bin lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     19 Jul 21 17:05 bxt_dmc_ver1.bin -&gt; bxt_dmc_ver1_07.bin -rw-r--r--  1 root root   8824 Jul 21 17:03 skl_dmc_ver1_23.bin -rw-r--r--  1 root root   8928 Jul 12 21:33 skl_dmc_ver1_26.bin lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     19 Jul 12 21:33 skl_dmc_ver1.bin -&gt; skl_dmc_ver1_26.bin -rw-r--r--  1 root root 109636 Jul 21 17:03 skl_guc_ver1_1059.bin lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     21 Jul 21 17:03 skl_guc_ver1.bin -&gt; skl_guc_ver1_1059.bin -rw-r--r--  1 root root 128320 Jul 21 17:03 skl_guc_ver4_3.bin lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     18 Jul 21 17:03 skl_guc_ver4.bin -&gt; skl_guc_ver4_3.bin   The latest driver package seems to be installed though:  $ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-intel:   Installed: 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1   Candidate: 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1   Version table:  *** 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1 500         500 http://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status   What does this warning mean exactly and how can I fix it?
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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 been having some screen freezing issues on my new Ubuntu 16.04 system, and have been in the troubleshooting process for this issue. I thought it was a graphics driver problem, as I am running an AMD R9 380x card which was supposed to be fully supported by the open-source AMDGPU driver preinstalled with 16.04, but after looking around online, many people seem to have issues with. I thought the answer would be to install the recently released AMDGPU-Pro driver , following the instructions from . However, when I reboot I am getting a black screen. Is there an easy way to revert my changes back? My machine was semi-functional with the freezing issue but now with no video at all is useless to me. How to proceed?
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After upgrading to 12.10 quantal, the packaged version of fglrx no longer works. I discovered that this is because there is a separate 'legacy' fglrx driver for the HD 2k-4k series cards, but it is incompatible with the xorg server on 12.10.  This is the most current version of the driver for HD 2000 through HD 4000 series cards. You can't use the non-legacy fglrx driver, but you can use the open-source radeon driver if you prefer your WM compositing to be laggy and your YouTube videos to play like they would on a Pentium MMX series:    Usually this driver can be installed in the following way, necessary because apt-get install fglrx would pull in the non-legacy driver:  wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/legacy/amd-driver-installer-12.6-legacy-x86.x86_64.zip unzip amd-driver-installer-* sudo sh ./amd-driver-installer-*.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/quantal sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb sudo aticonfig --initial -f   If you use a different version of fglrx (for example, a newer 12.9 that doesn't support those cards) then the final command will give you an error no supported hardware detected or something similar. However, everything works at this point and you will get a reasonable xorg.conf:  ... other stuff  Section "Device"         Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"         Driver      "fglrx"         BusID       "PCI:1:5:0" EndSection  ... other stuff   At this point you're supposed to reboot and everything will be working with the fglrx driver. However, upon rebooting, you'll be treated to the following errors in Xorg.0.log when fglrx attempts to load:  (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: noXFree86DRIExtension   Some searching around will show that this is a problem with the legacy ATI drivers not supporting xserver 1.13 or newer. () ATI has released a fixed driver for its most recent (HD 5000 series or later) cards, but not for the 'legacy' cards yet. The non-legacy ATI drivers can't be used with the old cards.  What should an Ubuntu user, using one of these HD 2000-4000 series cards, do?    Wait for an updated 'legacy' ATI driver that properly works with xserver 1.13?   Downgrade back to 12.04 Precise, which uses xserver 1.11? Try to downgrade xserver on 12.10 Quantal to 1.12, which could possibly break Unity and GNOME? Forced upgrade to HD 5000 series or later card? (Not possible with integrated graphics...) Some other 1337 action that fixes this problem painlessly?
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I am uncertain about how to install CUDA in my system.  looking around there are many tutorials about cuda on 12.04 LTS and a few on 13.04 and 13.10, but they all talk about acquiring a deb package from the .   Well NVidia does not offer a Debian package for 14.04 as of yet.  However, there is a promising package in apt repository: nvidia-cuda-toolkit.  The problem is that I didn't find any example with it. At least not the examples that are referred to in  section 4.11.  I should mention that the toolkit installed is v5.5, not v6 but I haven't found documentation for cuda v5.5 on the NVidia website.  So I can verify that nvcc is there, but nothing further than that. How can I get some examples to run to verify the CUDA is installed properly?
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I am considering buying a Dell XPS 15 laptop. The laptop has a Nvidia 420m card which should work with Linux but I keep reading that the Nvidia Optimus technology isn't supported on Linux. I am not really interested in switching from Nvidia to Intel to save power but need to know that the Nvidia card will in fact work if I installed Ubuntu.  If anyone has experience using a Nvidia card with Optimus technology or even better the exact laptop in question (Dell XPS 15 with 1GB NVIDIA® GeForce®  GT 420M) it would be great.  A major problem holding people back from adopting Linux is this sort of hardware issue. I am a long term Ubuntu user and supporter who can't afford to make a mistake with a purchase like this. I don't want to spend £500+ to find I have no graphics acceleration because Windows 7 is not an option.
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After installing Ubuntu 10.04 I had some flickering issues, so I tried upgrading drivers and such, then I installed the fglrx driver and the flickering have gone away but when trying to access the TTY screens from 1-6 the screen goes blank. I'm able to get back in to gnome on tty7.  any one have a suggestion on what to try here?    Dennis  the output is:  glennwiz@Linux-laptop:~$ sudo cat /dev/vcs1  Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Linux-laptop tty1  Linux-laptop login:       Nerdfest im using radeon x1300  lspci output 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300] 02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller 02:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) 02:06.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller 02:06.4 Communication controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 GemCore based SmartCard controller 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5753M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21) 10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)     Anyone have a suggestion?