Questions tagged [nouveau]
The nouveau project aims to build high-quality, free/libre software drivers for nVidia cards. “Nouveau” [nuvo] is the French word for “new”.
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How to disable Nouveau kernel driver
When installing CUDA in Ubuntu 16.04 by executing cuda_8.0.44_linux.run,
I got the following error message in /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
Then I checked /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-...
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Install Nvidia driver instead of nouveau
I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 and I'm experiencing a fuzzy/blurry screen and bad support for multiple screens.
I realized that Ubuntu installs nouveau as default, but I need to install nvidia drivers, ...
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Remove nVidia driver and go back to Nouveau
I've installed nVidia driver successfully but I want to go back to Nouveau driver and eliminate any xorg.conf file created by nVidia config tools.
What is the proper way to do it? (not ending up with ...
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Switch between nvidia-current and nouveau without a reboot?
Is it possible to switch between Nvidia's BLOB and Nouveau video drivers on-the-fly?
I think I need to be able to:
[✓] Unload nvidia
[✓] Unload nouveau
[✕] Restore the console ...
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Am I using the Nouveau driver or the proprietary NVIDIA driver?
For a long time, I have used the NVIDIA proprietary driver. In Additional Drivers the NVIDIA driver was activated. However, I just "Removed" that driver because I would like to use the Nouveau driver ...
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How to switch from nvidia to nouveau drivers on ubuntu 18.04
Running ubuntu 18.04 with nvidia-driver-390. How can I switch to nouveau and make the change persistent between reboots?
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Cannot get rid of nvidia drivers, restore nouveau driver and get desktop working
I made the mistake of installing the Nvidia Linux drivers direct from their website.
It failed because it could not remove the nouveau driver.
Next I manually installed the nvidia drivers from the ...
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How can I find out which cards are supported by the nouveau driver?
I'm looking at different Nvidia cards and would like to know which are supported by the nouveau driver - is there a list of these available and the levels of support offered?
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Can't disable nouveau drivers in Ubuntu 18.04
I tried disabling nouveau drivers in Ubuntu 18.04 by putting these lines in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:
#Blacklist nouveau drivers
blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
alias nouveau off
alias ...
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How to safely remove proprietary Intel driver
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 ...
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Can I view Nvidia GPU usage with nouveau drivers?
I am using nouveau drivers for my Nvidia GPU. I don't want to change to proprietary drivers. Is there any way I can view my GPU usage similar to htop?
There are a couple of old questions Can I view ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 crashes on resuming from suspend
Scenario.
I recently uninstalled Nvidia propitiatory drivers, and installed nouveau ones.
Before that, sleep and resume worked fine. So it might be a driver issue, but I don't want to taint my kernel ...
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Firefox and Chromium Won't Start in Ubuntu 22.04 with Nouveau Driver
I just did a clean install of Ubuntu 22.04 on two machines with Nvidia video cards.
With the default nouveau video driver, neither Firefox or Chromium (both snaps) will start.
Firefox gives the ...
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Installing Ubuntu On Dell Precision 5510
Has anyone had any success installing Ubuntu 14.04, 15.10, or any variety on the new Dell Precision 5510?
I have been trying for 3 days with very little success.
Issues I'm Facing
The Intel 8260 ...
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Nouveau blacklisted but loaded
Hi I am trying to use Ubuntu-Prime for ubuntu 18 on an asus laptop with 2 GPU (intel & nvidia).
I found the power consumption of the computer to be way too high when I reboot with only the intel ...
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How can I switch between Nouveau and INTEL video driver?
On laptops with NVIDIA Optimus, Nouveau is installed by default.
When you try to install closed-source driver of NVIDIA, it's possible to switch between NVIDIA and INTEL video driver via NVIDIA's ...
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Can I view Nvidia GPU usage?
I know that I can view CPU usage using System Monitor:
Is there such a tool for viewing GPU usage, as well?
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Ubuntu 16.04 - are nouveau drivers or NVIDIA drivers in use?
I'm using a lenovo Y 700 laptop, running Ubuntu 16.04 and I'm trying to fix some graphics issues. One of the problems I'm encountering is, when I select the NVIDIA binary driver in the Additional ...
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Revert back to Nouveau drivers [duplicate]
I was trying to install the proprietary nvidia drivers for my optimus laptop. This resulted in my GUI disappearing, I can only see my desktop background (can still open terminal and right-click the ...
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resume from blank screen nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 6013d4 [ IBUS ] (18.10)
On Ubuntu 18.10 I have Settings for blank screen after 10 mins however when I hit ESC to resume it just shows purple screen and does not respond to keyboard no login prompt ... using screen top right ...
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Whole system freezes, even TTY does not work [closed]
I upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04 and now after a while the complete OS freezes. I can't even go into TTY1 - TTY6. I have to use REISUB to restart my machine.
Most of the time, it freezes when I use ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 freeze/crash
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04. 14.04 was rock stable for more than a year that I used it. This should rule out most hardware issues. The only difference is that in 16.04 I'm using ...
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ubuntu 13.10 secondary monitor - doesn't redraw properly
Hi I've just installed Ubuntu 13.10 on a Lenovo w350 and am having some issues with graphics driver.
standard nouveau drivers work great on the laptop display but when I attach an external display it ...
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Nvidia vs Nouveau drivers
I see this for my drivers on my Ubuntu 18.04. So I'm using this
nvidia-driver-440
Is this the Nvidia made driver or the Nouveau one? I think it is Nvidia's one because the Nouveau one is on the ...
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How do I install the NVIDIA driver for a GeForce 6200?
I have been recently trying to find a solution for this on the web but did not find something useful or accurate for Ubuntu 11.10. I also consulted the NVIDIA help, but things there did not work for ...
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Ubuntu wakes up immediately from sleep after NVIDIA driver update
I was using the Nouveau X.org driver for my graphics card, but today I changed the driver to nvidia-driver-470 (proprietary and tested) from the "additional drivers" program in Ubuntu.
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Why do the Nouveau drivers work better than the Nvidia ones?
I have a bit of a weirdie here.
My rig uses an Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS in a PCIE x16 slot. Up to about a year ago, no problems with the card. I then started getting random crashes. They got more ...
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Installation problem - dual boot with W10 on Win certified laptop
I've got Acer V15 Nitro Black Edition with Intel Integrated graphics + GTX 860M and I know there are some problems with drivers and so on. But I have problem with installation, where I just get ...
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How do I get a Dell Latitude e6420 working?
I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) on a brand new Dell Latitude e6420, and I'm having a few problems. This laptop has an Optimus (?) setup - i.e. integrated gfx and an Nvidia Quadro NVS 4200M.
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What sort of information do I need to send a bug report to nouveau developers?
I'm aware that nouveau on PPC is "known to work" more than "rigorously tested" but I'm having issues with certain OpenGL 2D programs (not 3D) where the colors are completely off.
While it could be an ...
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Standby Problem, PC can not enter Standby mode
I have a problem with the Standby function: My Computer does not enter the Standby mode with Ubuntu 14.04LTS. If I remeber me right, it works with Ubuntu 13.10 but this Version was not long installed ...
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nouveau driver issue when trying to boot ubuntu
i just installed ubuntu, and it says nouveau failed to idle channel 1 and 2. it also says nouveau playlist update failed. i believe this is a video card driver problem. what can i to to resolve this?
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Blackscreen - failed to idle channel
I've just installed Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 LTS and everything was working fine.
But suddenly it freezes and then goes blackscreen, and displays this:
* Stopping System V runlevel compatibility
* ...
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What's the proper way to install NVidia drivers now? [duplicate]
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Once upon a time, when I installed Ubuntu 10.x on an older machine, and kept upgrading it until 13.04 or 13.10, there was an easy-to-find option in Settings that allowed to install NVidia'...
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nouveau stalled at ffff error message while trying to convert Windows 10 laptop to Ubuntu
I am trying to convert my old MSI gaming laptop into an Ubuntu machine.
I followed the tutorial Converting an Old Windows Laptop to Ubuntu and downloaded and installed Ubuntu on a bootable USB.
I ...
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Second Screen Resolution Nvidia (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)
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After Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release i am having more problems with second screen. The solution below i wrote before doesn't work. It has ...
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3D support from Nouveau drivers
My GPU is an old one (FX 5500), but it supports 3D acceleration with the NVIDIA driver. There is experimental acceleration support in the open source drivers as far as I know, and I would like to try ...
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Hibernation/suspend - nvidia/nouveau - Tried everything, still not working, any idea?
Having tested all the solutions that I could find on the net, I try my luck here:
I use Precise Pangolin, version 32bit kernel with pae
Symptoms:
Suspend goes well, but on resume, my screens remain ...
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Nouveau quad monitors dual-GPU error: could not set the configuration for CRTC 64
I have 2 GPU (Nvidia G96GL Quadro FX 580) hooked to 2 monitors each, and while I was on 12.04 I was happily using all 4 monitors using the proprietary drivers.
I recently upgraded to 13.10 and all ...
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Black screen after wake up and wrong resolution with the fix
I'm trying to fix the Nouveau driver bug. When I wake up my computer from sleep, the screen remain black, no image. So I added the nouveau.modeset=0 in the grub file and after a reboot, the screen ...
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Reverting to nouveau in ubuntu 18.04 doesn't work as expected
Since I had driver problems with nouveau on my Thinkpad (flickering external monitor on docking station) I switched to nvidia-390 and also to nvidia-396 both without success (didn't even recognize the ...
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Easy way to switch between Nouveau and Nvidia proprietary driver
I have a laptop with an NVidia GPU, installed along the default Intel Graphics card. Wishing to get the best performance for gaming, I switched to the proprietary NVidia drivers. However, having to ...
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How to use Nouveau for graphics and NVIDIA GPU for only CUDA programs on Optimus notebook?
I am using a notebook with a Intel i7 (with its own GPU) and a NVIDIA GPU. On Windows, the notebook uses Optimus to switch between the GPUs intelligently.
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and I installed CUDA ...
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Settings or something on Nouveau driver?
I'm on Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 and Nouveau driver is set by default. I don't want to set Nvidia proprietary driver because of my little fear (I broke my pc a while ago on 14.04 only trying to set it on "...
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can't login after suspend with Nouveau + wayland_22.04
I am having suspend issues for 22.04, hence, is testing different combinations of x11/wayland with different drivers. And I found out that I am unable to login after suspend when using the Nouveau + ...
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DisplayLink USB monitor with Ubuntu 14.04 and nVidia GPU
I figured even before reading http://plugable.com/2014/03/06/displaylink-usb-2-0-graphics-adapters-on-linux-2014-edition that DisplayLink won't work with proprietary nVidia driver. I also see that the ...
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How to use nouveau instead of intel?
I have a laptop with Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU. I want to use nouveau but whatever I do my laptop is always using Intel's driver. How can I make it use nouveau?
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Clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 - Screen goes black after login, but mouse works
Disclaimer there are MANY questions on this topic and none of them apply to my situation.
Note the following:
The system previously ran Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop 32bit without issue.
This is a clean ...
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Can't change display driver on Ubuntu 20.04
I recently installed 20.04 and I'm confused as I found this bug while changing my display drivers. While installing, I got my Nvidia drivers automatically installed, but they were buggy and had some ...
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Nouveau or Intel - what's my system using?
Noob question. I have Nouveau, not nvidia drivers installed on a Skylake + Geforce GTX 960M Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 system.
When I go to the "Details" app it says "Graphics: Intel® HD Graphics 530 (...
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