Questions tagged [display-driver]

Software that allows the operating system to interface with graphics hardware.

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Can't start Weston anymore

For a few weeks, I haven't been able to start Weston anymore on my Arch Linux machine. My Graphics card is: $ glxinfo | grep 'renderer string' OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge ...
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nVidia - Display driver stopped responding and has recovered

I keep getting this error of nVidia driver. So what it does basically first it freeze all windows then my monitor becomes black and if it recovers it gives me error message like u see in the url, if ...
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Screen flicker with Intel HD graphics driver

I have Ubuntu and Windows 7 running on my Probook (HP Probook 4530s, core i3/2nd gen/4GB/320GB). It was functioning well. However, the screen started flickering in Win 7. Upon uninstalling the Intel ...
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Black screen when launching games, but not when stress testing

I am building a new system, and I am still waiting on my GPU (RTX 3080) to arrive. I have found similar problems, but not as specific as mine. The problem I have with this system is the following... ...
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Freshly Installed Ubuntu 20.10 freezes abruptly with HP pavilion - AMD Ryzen 5 4600H - Nvidia Graphics 1650

I installed ubuntu 20.10 on HP pavilion laptop in dual boot with windows 10 home. I am able to login to ubuntu but it randomly freezes after some time and I need to do a hard reset to restart. The ...
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Change monitor pixel dimensions using software on Windows 10

I have an Emerson LE220EM3 TV I am using for a second monitor. The image it projects stretches about 65 pixels beyond the border of the casing. For example, my taskbar and minimize/close buttons are ...
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No matching fbConfigs or visuals found, while openning Qt Creator over SSH

I have Qt 5.12.7 64 installed on Debian 9.12, these are running on vmware on Windows host. Then I use macOS and ssh into debian. And I tried to open Qt Creator and got: $ ~/Qt5.12.7/Tools/QtCreator/...
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Modetest LCD outputs are not identical on new LCD implementation

I have been working on implementing a custom 10.1" LCD screen to my Acqua “System On Module” (running a SAMA5D36 Microchip MPU) unfortunately without any good results. The problem I am facing is that ...
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Have different graphics drivers for different computers with different GPUs?

EDIT: The hard drive/usb stick in question is supposed to have the graphics drivers beforehand so it can take advantage of the in-system graphics solution. I'm trying to make a Linux stick running ...
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Howto enable GPU-scaling with nVidia GTX 680 and UltraHD-DisplayPort-1.2-monitor?

I am running a Dell UltraHD-monitor in 3840x2160 at 60 Hz (DisplayPort 1.2). This monitor doesn’t support upscaling when running in DP 1.2 mode. nVidia's latest drivers seem to prevent GPU scaling ...
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Blender refuses to start

I'm trying to run Blender under Linux, but I'm unable to do that, whenever I try I get some errors. I'm using Kubuntu 12.04 with KDE 4.11.1. This is my video card: ~$ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA ...
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How to run two radeon video cards (one old, one new) after catalyst dropped unified driver?

(Apologies for the rather long post...) On early 2012, i was running a Radeon HD2400 and a HD6950 on the same computer, driving 3 monitors; primary monitor on the HD6950 and two side monitors on the ...
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Windows 7 losing one of my displays after restart

I have an Intel DZ68BC motherboard with Intel HD graphics card using two monitors (on DVI and on HDMI » VGA). My friend asked me to test if his NVIDIA graphics card works well on my computer (at his ...
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Motherboard with embedded hdmi problems with Windows 8 Consumer Preview (64bit)

I'm specifically referring to GIGABYTE GA-E7AUM-DS2H LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9400 HDMI Micro ATX with a Core 2 Duo chip. This computer is connected to a Sharp Aquous TV using HDMI. It all worked fine ...
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OpenGL/webGL not working, nouveau drivers

Title says it, OpenGL software crashes and Chromium says hardware acceleration is not available for webGL, though they should be supported by nouveau drivers. Running 64-bit Arch linux with xfce4 ...
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Dell Latitude E6540 Windows 10 Won't allow latest intel graphics driver to install

Below is the error message at the end of the log. I'm using dell support assist on the Dell Latitude e6540 running Windows 10 22H2 and trying to install the Intel HD iris 4600 Graphics driver - which ...
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Display from my RX580 stays on for a few minutes at a time whenever PC is booted up, then goes dark

For the past week it has been the case that my GPU simply does not output a display, although everything else works fine. Every few hours, if I restart the PC, the display comes on, though only for ...
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Windows 10: external monitor "No Input Signal" in "Extend" mode, though "Duplicate" or "Show only second display" work

I wanted to have a dual screen setup. The 2 monitors in my dual screen setup are as follows: My laptop's screen: My laptop's screen only has HDMI port. It is dell inspiron 15 5567 laptop. It has 15....
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Using Two Video Cards (GTX 980 and Quadro 2000) SLI/Physx, or other options?

I have not asked a question here before and so I hope I am in the right spot. I am having trouble getting my system to utilize both of my video cards (GTX 980 and Quadro 2000). I would like the GTX ...
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GeForce graphics card stopped working

this is my first topic. I spent a couple days already Googling everything, ended up in this forum a couple of times, and it seems that no one had the exact same issue I have. First things first: My ...
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Why does my screen go black after installing GPU drivers?

I have an HP Compaq d5700 running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit. It's plugged into my TV and serves as our media center. Recently, the built-in VGA display failed. Since I had no other compatible ...
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How to install apropriate driver in Linux Mint via Virtual Box?

I have a slight problem with Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon installed on Virtual Box 6.0.14, which is hosted on Windows 10. Everytime I boot into VM I get a driver error: Does anyone know how to sort it ...
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How to install virtual display in windows server 2016?

I have VPS with Server 2016. I need to extend my desktop. Max resolution is 2560x1600 but I need more. Is it possible to add virtual monitor so I can extend my desktop? Tried Virtual display manager - ...
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How do I force Windows 7 Home to use the Generic Display Driver permanently?

The ancient PC we use at work has a flickering screen and I have figured out that the issue is that the driver is faulty for some reason. When I boot into safe mode with networking the flickering ...
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X Server closing without errors

I'm trying to install Nvidia drivers on my centos 7.6 install. I've managed to install them from Nvidia's website with a successful install (according to the .sh installer). However, every time I try ...
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Android Studio 3 emulator fails - Lunux Mint

I have a new installation of Android Studio 3 on Linux Mint. When trying to run on an emulator, it fails with the following errors in the log: 7:00 PM Emulator: libGL error: unable to load driver: ...
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Computer freezes when I enable NVIDIA card

Everything was working fine until yesterday, a video game crashed in the middle of a game. I couldn't restart it because Steam claimed it's still running, so I rebooted. But it didn't start up. It ...
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X server not starting anymore

I recently updated my arch Linux system and now I can't start the X server anymore. I don't use a graphical login screen but run startx automatically after login in. Since the update I only get an ...
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Lenovo G580 (20150)- Geforce drivers from Lenovo won't install

I've got Lenovo G580 (20150) and I'm trying to install the geforce graphics card present in the system. I don't know exactly what the gpu model is but it's something akin to Geforce 610M. I've got ...
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Generic Video driver for Windows 7 to replace VgaSave?

My laptop currently has some hardware problems (which I believe is a failing VRAM chip) that prevent its GPU from running at its full capacity. I am planning to fix it, but for now I am stuck with the ...
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Are memory leaks still possible with modern OS?

Are memory leaks still possible on Modern OS when the application exits? From my understanding, Modern OS manages memory quite well and will clear the memory once the application exits. This means ...
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NVS 4200m Not using all Shared system memory

I have a laptop and it has the Nvidia NVS 4200m wich is 500Mb dedicated memory and 2GB Shared system memory how can i force my pc to use all of the Shared ssytem memory Becase it only using the 500Mb ...
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DVI-I to VGA adapter not working (Analog signal issue?)

I have two monitors that have only VGA imputs on them. The computer I'm plugging them into has VGA and DVI-I outputs on the motherboard. To connect the DVI-I to the second VGA monitor I'm using the ...
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4k display flickering on HP z24s monitor on 60 Hz with DP1.2

About a year and half ago I bought a new 4k monitor: HP Z24s. The very first batch. And there has been a constant disappointment. I decided to not return the display to the shop, because everything ...
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Windows 10 Session restarting + no graphic card

I have a weird issue: My setup has 2 screens plugged with DVI, and one TV with HDMI, all on my GTX460 video card (drivers up to date). Sometimes (I think it's when I am gaming and watching video, it ...
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Geforce 368.69 driver installation on Windows won't work and ends in black screen

I've downloaded and attempted installation of the Geforce 368.69 driver both as the standalone and via Geforce Experience, done also on fresh installs of windows 10 AND windows 8.1 (mainly because I ...
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Trouble installing emulator software (windows 10)

I have a pretty old but decent laptop, an Acer Aspire 5738Z-4111. I wanted to install some emulator software but all show that my graphic drivers are out of date (except bluestacks emulator which I ...
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Terminal lines intermittently invisible or corrupt on Ubuntu 12.04

I am running gnome-terminal under Ubuntu 12.04 and I have a weird problem that I haven't managed to find any info on. Whenever I type a command, the resulting output is frequently - but not always - ...
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Configure graphics driver for Arch Linux on Lenovo Z710

I want to configure my graphics card driver on Lenovo Z710, because my laptop is overheating. On Ubuntu I installed bumblebee and other stuff, but my system crashed; this time I want to avoid this. ...
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Windows 7 doesn't always recognize my nvidia geforce

Weird behaviour I have on my Windows 7 machine with my GeForce GTX 260: The card is recognized as standard vga adapter on every second boot. I usually have to unplug the card and restart the machine ...
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Display Driver + Firefox/IE/Edge + Windows 10 = Constant Freeze-Ups?

Okay, so I just bought an Asus K501UX laptop with an i7 processor and a NVIDIA graphics card. Well, actually, I bought two of them, but the first one had to be returned. But they both have the same ...
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Custom built computer with ASUS R9 290 GPU will not install video drivers without crashing

I have a custom built computer with an ASUS R9 290, an ASUS Maximus VI Hero motherboard, and an an Intel Core i7 4770K running Windows 8.1 64-bit. Recently I decided to wipe all my data to “start ...
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AMD ATI driver - atikmdag.sys causing BSODs

For the past two years I've been having problems with ATI drivers on Win7. From what I can gather, it's caused by ATI drivers. I have AMD Radeon Sapphire HD 7750 Ultimate Edition 128-bit 1GB DDR5 ...
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Using a displaylink adapter with the Xorg modesetting driver

I have a USB2 displaylink adapter connected to my machine so as to make use of that nice second monitor I have here. The primary graphics card is the dreaded Poulsbo, so there's no hardware ...
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downgraded from SLI, should I do anything special?

I used to have SLI GTX 670, due to some rethinking and not really needing that much power I sold off one of the cards. Everything has been working fine during games, but I get these random "Display ...
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Remove Windows Driver from Linux

I have a dual boot system with Win7 and Linux. After my install, Windows attempts to boot in safe mode but fails at a driver. It's the AMD video card driver. How do I uninstall a driver for Windows ...
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Tesla K20 PCIe 2.0 limit in driver or VBIOS?

I have multiple Sandy Bridge/Sandy Bridge-E GPU/CUDA development machines and while I could get both GeForce GTX680 and TITAN to work in PCIe 3.0 mode (using the NVreg_EnablePCIeGen3 driver option, ...
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Cannot install sound and display driver without Windows xp service pack 3

I have already installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 and downloaded the sound and display driver from the manufacturer website but when I try and install it, I get an error message that it was not ...
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How to Find Out What Version of Display Driver is Installed

One of my favorite games, "Wolfenstein Enemy Territory", has stopped working lately. It throws a segfault during the initialization phase. I suspect that the reason is a recent update to the video ...
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How to write script/program to duplicate a monitor (to fix HDMI audio issues)

Cliff's notes: Question: Is there a way to write a script to clone a monitor to another monitor (rather than do so manually in Control Panel or ATI driver)? I would like something similar to How can ...
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