I have a Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop which has both a discrete GPU (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650) and an integrated GP (Intel HD Graphics). A few days ago I started to get BSOD with the atikmpag.sys 0x00000116 error. In the device manager I had stopped the ATI driver and now I can use my laptop. In the display properties I read that now it uses the VgaSave driver.  My question is: is this driver runs in the integrated GP, or in the discrete GPU? Is there any way to tell?  Thank you.    UPDATE: This is from the Dell Inspiron N5010 Setup Guide:      UPDATE 2: This is what Adapter Properties Window shows:      UPDATE 3: I am now really confused. I have been running my laptop for about 5 hours on the VgaSave driver, with ATI driver stopped in the Device Manager. As Fleet Command has suggested, I assumed that the VgaSave driver was running on the inegrated GP. Could you please see the attached picture and tell me why the discrete GPU heats up?    I also downloaded the latest version of the OpenHardwareMonitor, as suggested in the answer for this question (), and its readings do not seem to be reliable as to whether the discrete GPU is engaged or not. That makes the accepted answer invalid.    Also, my system is different from the system in the question because I do not have the integrated GP listed in the Device Manager. So - different system and no valid answer = not a duplicate.    UPDATE 4:  I made some more screenshots, hope that may help. I can not post images, so I can only provide the links.  This is DirectX Diagnostic Tool (DxDiag) output, it is not in English, but if something needs explanation, I will translate:   This is GPU-Z output:      And this is from the Device Manager, I put some minor translation (in red):   The laptop CPU is Intel Core i5 M480 2.67 GHz  Thanks for the help, guys.
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I have a ATI Dynamic switchable graphics on a HP Pavilion g7 (hp pavilion g7-1246ef) but it has no support in Win7 32-bit.   It seems that I have 2 VGA controllers:   One on-CPU Intel for energy-efficiency One discrete card (an ATI/AMD Radeon HD 6470M in your case) for rendering.     The Intel driver provided Aero support and other options and the Windows update gives a generic driver for AMD but drivers from AMD and HP made for the switching part (including AMD Catalyst Control Center) are not working in this case. More on this (especially the comments) - .  I gave up for now but I am curious what happens meanwhile.  I know that the AMD Catalyst Control Center allows choosing manually the VGA or letting the applications choose which VGA to use. But what happens when there's no AMD Catalyst Control Center present?
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This didn't start out as a problem with the login loop.  I was attempting a clean install of Ubuntu 16 and using the new feature that allows it to detect proprietary drivers for me.  I started off with   When I attempted to use the recommended Nvidia Drivers, it caused the laptop to become unstable and freeze.    I attempted the remedy from that post and it resulted in a login loop.  I have attempted   sudo mv ~/.config/dconf/user ~/.config/dconf/user.old   Tried   sudo mv ~/.Xauthority ~/.Xauthority.backup sudo service lightdm restart   I have tried locating and disabling secureboot, but there is no secureboot option in the bios.  This is an HP DV2000 series laptop.  Nothing is helping    Can someone help?  edit:  Guest session does the same loop.  /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows a lot of stuff, but I took a pic of what seems relevant   Thing is the driver I first tried that started this mess was 304 drivers and the 364 drivers were supposed to be the fix according to other posts.  More editing:  I purged the nvidia files and it came back to a blank desktop w/o the interfaces so I right clicked and restored a backup.. The sidebar came back and it was running gallium.  I restarted and its the blank purple screen again.  I am thinking of just reinstalling and not using nvidia drivers.  The software center is telling me I have a presario and i should use 304 drivers.  Its not a presario. =(  At least the software center provides a suggestion for the coprocessor driver which is nice.
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I try to find what graphics card I'm running, the commands in terminal only gives me this:   VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller.    How do I install the correct driver? As I can see that not everything is displaying correctly. I want to set a proper resolution, but can't as I don't have the right drivers on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine. It's an Acer Aspire One netbook.
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We want to set up a 3 screens with an onboard intel graphics adapter and an nvidia card.  Both cards are recognized in lspci   01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2) 00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)   And bascially work: If I switch to the console, I see output on the Intel card, X is only running on the Nvidia card.  But when I type xrandr | grep conn I get only one connected port:   DVI-I-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-I-1 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)   I am on Ubuntu 12.10 (and XFCE) and installed the proprietary nvidia driver.  I was assuming that X maybe has a problem to autodetect both cards, so I thought the following xorg.conf could help:   Section "ServerLayout"     Identifier     "Layout0"     Screen      0  "Screen0"     Screen      1  "Screen1"     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection  Section "Files" EndSection  Section "InputDevice"     # generated from default     Identifier     "Mouse0"     Driver         "mouse"     Option         "Protocol" "auto"     Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"     Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection  Section "InputDevice"     # generated from default     Identifier     "Keyboard0"     Driver         "kbd" EndSection  Section "Monitor"     Identifier     "Monitor0"     VendorName     "Unknown"     ModelName      "Unknown"     HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0     VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0     Option         "DPMS" EndSection  Section "Device"     Identifier     "Device0"     Driver         "nvidia"     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"     BoardName      "GeForce 210" EndSection  Section "Screen"     Identifier     "Screen0"     Device         "Device0"     Monitor        "Monitor0"     DefaultDepth    24     SubSection     "Display"         Depth       24     EndSubSection EndSection   Section "Monitor"     Identifier     "Monitor1"     VendorName     "Unknown"     ModelName      "Unknown"     HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0     VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0     Option         "DPMS" EndSection  Section "Device"     Identifier     "Device1"     Driver         "intel"     VendorName     "Intel"     BoardName      "Internal Intel Graphics" EndSection  Section "Screen"     Identifier     "Screen1"     Device         "Device1"     Monitor        "Monitor1"     DefaultDepth    24     SubSection     "Display"         Depth       24     EndSubSection EndSection   But it is still not working.   Is this generally possible to use two different drivers in X ? Is it necessary to create an xorg.conf manually then? (because Ubuntu 12.10 normally works without the xorg.conf) Are there any errors in my xorg.conf?
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I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my Lenovo IdeaPad Y510P today. Everything worked fine, but after installing my graphics card driver the background became pixelated (Nvidia GeForce GT755m). I downloaded the driver through Additional Drivers and selected Version 331.113 (Proprietary, tested). It was using Nouveau before.  When I apply Nouveau it becomes clean again, but it is much weaker when I open games, it gives me very low FPS even in Counter-Strike. With Nvidia driver FPS and everything else seems fine, except things look pixelated and when I minimize windows and maximize again, the window goes black.    I attempted to solve the problem myself by removing the old Nvidia driver and manually installing the latest version, but it did not help.  Please let me know if you need more details.
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I bought a Dell N5110 laptop and installed . The Nvidia graphics card in the laptop has 1 GB of RAM, but when I try to run the game, a message appears that says there is only 128 MB of graphics memory.   Here is the message:     Warning : Your computer does not meet the Minimum System Requirements to run this software. As a result, you may experience errors during operation. Your Video Card does not meet the required specifications. (GPU:VRAM 128MB)   What could the problem be?
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I installed the latest version of vmware workstation (10.0.2) in ubuntu 14.04 LTS and I have the following problem:    I use the open source driver "Radeon" (Galium 0.4) and Mesa 10.1.0.  My graphics card:  glxinfo | grep OpenGL  OpenGL vendor string: X.Org OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS780 OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.1.0 OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 1.40 OpenGL core profile context flags: (none) OpenGL core profile extensions: OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.0 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30 OpenGL context flags: (none) OpenGL extensions:   lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 VGA  01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780D [Radeon HD 3300] [1002:9614] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:834d] Kernel driver in use: radeon 01:05.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780 HDMI Audio [Radeon (HD) 3000 Series] [1002:960f]  glxinfo | grep -i render  direct rendering: Yes GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS780 GL_MESA_texture_signed_rgba, GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_depth_clamp, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_depth_clamp,   I tried to install driconf and changed Enable S3TC texture compression...by default is No, and also edited the .vmx file, adding the line:  mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"   But it doesn't work.  I checked if this package is in my system:  libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0   I think it is a free implementation of the texture compression library for Mesa. This package is installed by default on Trusty.  Any help would be greatly appreciated  Best Regards.
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There aren't any drivers for the video card on my computer or for SiS in Ubuntu repositories and I know that it is poorly supported or one of least supported. I also have Windows installed and on Windows the drivers are installed and available.  Can I use wine or PlayOnLinux to install those drivers from Windows so that I have the drivers installed on Ubuntu?  Is that possible?    I have Ubuntu 12.04 beta so far and Ubuntu 11.10 installed  My video card is:   01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)   From a previous question that I asked
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Since installing Ubuntu 12.04, I am experiencing low performance on graphic programs, including video playbacks, etc.   As I have checked the intel driver of mine is already at its latest version. It's really occuring meanwhile playback of videos or web-flash videos (youtube, etc) OS is being logged out automatically and just display an error reporting of Xorg windows for me. I can not actually playback hd videos with the normal frame rate as well. here are some initiation of my graphic card details :  *-display:0                 description: VGA compatible controller    product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller    vendor: Intel Corporation    physical id: 2    bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0    version: 07    width: 64 bits    clock: 33MHz    capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom    configuration: driver=i915 latency=0    resources: irq:45 memory:f6c00000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:efe8(size=8) *-display:1 UNCLAIMED    description: Display controller    product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller    vendor: Intel Corporation    physical id: 2.1    bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1    version: 07    width: 64 bits    clock: 33MHz    capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list    configuration: latency=0    resources: memory:f6b00000-f6bfffff   and the intel model:  00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)   Edited: A little more information :  No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Release:    12.04 Codename:   precise   Username Info:  Linux amir-laptop 3.2.0-53-generic-pae #81-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 22 21:23:47 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux   Xorg info :  ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel               2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4.4                       X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver
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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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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 had the beta drivers running previously and after a standard update it stopped working. What I've tried so far:  sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*   Then downloaded drivers from Amd website and unzipped it and ran:  sudo ./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-4-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/trusty sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb   After this the Ubuntu  guide wants to make this:  aticonfig --initial   and it returns:  Unable to open /etc/ati/control, please reinstall the driver. aticonfig: No supported adapters detected   The adapter is 280x and as said, it worked previously with the same drivers and with the same installation procedure.  Any ideas?
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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've started getting random blue screens from my (admittedly aged PC). Unfortunately it reboots straight away so I don't get chance to read the error. It's been happening when browsing Stack Overflow in Google Chrome and Firefox so I'm assuming that it's something fairly fundamental.  Most of the time it puts up the "Report the error to Microsoft" dialog and I've checked the data files it wants to send but can't find the information there. I'll freely admit I could be looking in the wrong place.  I'm running Windows XP SP3 and I'm fully up to date with the updates.  The CPU is an Athlon XP 2600+, I've got 2 GB of RAM installed, an nVidia Quadro4 980 XGL driving two DELL 2001FP flat panels at 1600 x 1200 pixels (32 bits/pixel).  I've checked the CPU fan (which has been recently replaced) and that seems to be turning freely. The insides are a little dusty, but not excessively so.  So I need to either stop it rebooting or find out where the error code is stored so I can read it after the reboot.  UPDATE 22/09/2009  OK - just had the BSOD and it's in win32k.sys. I'm doing some research to see if I can find anything that might help. If I get stuck I'll post a new question. Thanks for all the suggestions.
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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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Today I see that there's an update to my graphics card driver (NVidia GT 220) available on Windows Update. Should I install that, or stick to the drivers provided by the manufacturer?  (Re-asked here after asking on gaming.stackexchange).
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Please help me install my AMD ATI Radeon Graphics HD 6770M on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit.  I have Hybrid Graphic card:  AMD ATI Radeon Graphics HD 6770M + Intel HD Graphics 3000  My laptop model: HP Pavilion DV6 6050EE  Hardware is listed as supported here:   The laptop fan is always running.