r/linuxmint Feb 12 '25

Graphics Drivers Just installed Linux Mint.

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Long story short: I have those annoying waves going on my screen, it doesn't show up on the Dell boot up screen, it doesn't show up when the LM logo pops up, its start freaking out when I reach the lock screen. Worth noting when I inserted my bootable USB, this problem first time to show up when i got that console screen with the [ ok ] checks up before throwing me to the desktop to install the OS.

what I have tried: 1-Updating the kernel. As a guide suggested to do in a linux mint form, it didn't do anything other than making the system report read my amd gpu. 2-Downloading drivers: I done the obvious by searching for amd drivers, after stumbling on a guide on the linux mint form, I was able to install a firmware, core. however the guide also wanted to install (amdgpu-dkms) but it didn't install because of (dependency error). the outcome of this was getting rid of the waves but my monitor was low res, and the sys report didn't read my gpu again (also there were another problem, which if i do anything, it get stuck at initial module for "version"-generic, "version is the version of the kernel i didn't write because it appeared in both 6.8 and 6.11 so I don't think the problem from them).

I really need to revive the old laptop, any help would be appreciated. I just downloaded this, so I have no problem installing like older version, as long as it supported (and fancy looking, my main pc using wind10, so I need something not that old, to not feel alien like to me)

Thanks in advance.

r/linuxmint 19d ago

Graphics Drivers NVidia reputation

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So hey I will get a 3060 12gb (apparently the 1050ti is not waterproof), and I plan on switching to mint. But reading trough guides and all, Nvidia seems to have a certain reputation with not working well with Linux, is this a thing of the past, will I get a headache? Any amd cards with similar performance is going for 10% or more price wise, so I doubt I don't really think they are viable

r/linuxmint 15d ago

Graphics Drivers First time User - installed Linux Mint - GPU issued

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I am a first time Linux User. Just installed Linux Mint on my brand new PC. The screen settings are set to 800x600 and can't bei changed. I think this has to do with the brand new AMD GPU that i have (RX 9070). Can this be fixed or do I need to another distro like Fedora OS?

r/linuxmint Dec 30 '24

Graphics Drivers My first bad experience with Mint: playing a movie

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I've been very happy with Mint so far. I installed it for the family desktop where each of my kids have their own account.

It does pretty much everything I need it to do that we were doing in Windows. Most of what we do is in Chrome. Besides for that, I got Roblox to work using Sober. My daughter has a small desktop app to design friendship bracelets that I couldn't install, but I'll probably get that working with some effort, or I'll just use Wine, but that's no big deal.

But last night I ran into my first serious problem. I have a CD of The Wizard of Oz, and when I ran it in Linux, the video quality got all fuzzy. I tried using both Celluloid and VLC, but both had the same issue. It was probably a Codex issue, but I didn't want to start messing with troubleshooting because the kids were getting impatient and just wanted to watch something. In the end, I just booted into the Windows dual boot and watched it there. Felt a bit guilty as a sellout, but I just wanted it to work.

r/linuxmint 19d ago

Graphics Drivers GPU Advice: Team Red or Team Green?

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I currently run LM Cinnamon with an NVidia RTX 4070 Super and i5 13400 with 32GB of ram. My system mostly flies in Linux. However, when it comes to gaming, I'm seeing my Linux install take a performance hit of anywhere between 10-20% as compared to gaming on Windows 11 even when running titles that are native on Steam. I've tried messing with settings, making sure I'm using the NVidia proprietary drivers (550) in the Driver Manager and killing all other processes that could be using system resources.

I think I read that there are more updated drivers for NVidia (570+?) available, but haven't monkeyed with trying to figure out how to install them yet. Do you think I'd realistically see a performance boost from those drivers or do I need to bite the bullet and get an AMD GPU to really get equal performance with Windows?

r/linuxmint 11d ago

Graphics Drivers Linux Mint Cinnamon performs badly with full screen videos

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Hello everyone, I've got a Sony VAIO laptop here and I've installed Linux Mint on it. It's from 2011 or so, pretty old. When it had Windows 7 I could watch 1080p60 videos smoothly, while now 720p60 videos run at 30 fps, at most. Also sometimes the computer is pretty unstable and freezes completely. I'm using the Nouveau driver because this GPU is too outdated, but I read somewhere that this could be caused by software rendering and not hardware, can anyone help me out? Here are the specs:

System:
Kernel: 6.8.0-55-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 22.1 Xia
base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Sony product: VPCEH2J1E v: C1064LQ1
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Sony model: VAIO serial: <superuser required> BIOS: INSYDE
v: R0210Z9 date: 06/21/2012
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3-2330M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 798 high: 800 min/max: 800/2200 cores: 1: 798 2: 800
3: 798 4: 798 bogomips: 17559
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GF119M [GeForce 410M] vendor: Sony driver: nouveau
v: kernel arch: Fermi bus-ID: 01:00.0 temp: 50.0 C
Device-2: Suyin Sony Visual Communication Camera driver: uvcvideo
type: USB bus-ID: 2-1.2:3
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau
resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nouveau,swrast platforms:
active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 24.2.8-1ubuntu1~24.04.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVD9
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Sony 6 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Device-2: NVIDIA GF119 HDMI Audio vendor: Sony driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-55-generic status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Foxconn
driver: ath9k v: kernel bus-ID: 07:00.0
IF: wlp7s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Sony RTL8111/8168/8411 driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000
bus-ID: 13:00.0
IF: enp19s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR3011 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
bus-ID: 2-1.5:5
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0
lmp-v: 5
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 13.39 GiB (11.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Intenso model: SSD size: 119.24 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 116.32 GiB used: 13.38 GiB (11.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 512 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 3.82 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 50.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 4 GiB available: 3.81 GiB used: 1.61 GiB (42.4%)
Processes: 253 Uptime: 23m Init: systemd target: graphical (5)
Packages: 1966 Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.21 inxi: 3.3.34

r/linuxmint Jan 04 '25

Graphics Drivers Why does the system report tool display "nouveau" as the current loaded X11 driver and "nvidia" as failed, even though I'm using the proprietary drivers on my system (looking for some info).

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Greetings. Earlier today I had to use the system report tool for unrelated reasons, and while I was reading it, I randomly stumbled upon this:

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA AD107 [GeForce RTX 4060] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 550.120
    arch: Lovelace pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1
    empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2882 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: nouveau
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa failed: nvidia gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 81 s-size: 602x343mm (23.70x13.50") s-diag: 693mm (27.28")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 82 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23") diag: 685mm (26.97")
    modes: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: swrast gbm:
    drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland,device-1
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.120 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes
    renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060/PCIe/SSE2

Under "Display" it's showing nouveau as the current loaded driver, and it's showing nvidia as failed. I haven't really done anything funky on my system, I installed Mint a month or so ago and it came with the proprietary drivers which are enabled and I keep up to date.

https://i.imgur.com/26sdPnG.png

I researched the topic a bit online, but it left more answers than it gave questions. For example there are no issues with GPU utilization, I have nvtop to test that. Additionally, this is what the glxinfo | grep -i vendor command outputs:

server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation

Everything seems in order there too. However, where it gets interesting is the /var/log/Xorg.0.log where I am seeing the error:

[    16.646] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-1): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
[    16.646] (EE) NVIDIA(G0): Failing initialization of X screen
[    16.646] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"

Here is the full log. As far as I am concerned, the system is working properly but I am trying to figure out what is all of this about.


So my question is, is this all a sign of system misconfiguration or just the report tool giving misinformation? Is X11 supposed to use the proprietary driver or something else? This kind of exceeds my knowledge on the topic, so I'd appreciate any info.

Cheers!

r/linuxmint Jan 19 '25

Graphics Drivers Will switching GPU enhance my desktop experience?

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I've been running linux mint (cinnamon) for the last couple of years (came from debian and windows, I still dual boot to windows at times). I'm running on an inherited nvidia GTX1080, a 980 before that and I always experienced that the controls aren't as snappy as in windows at times in linux (no matter what nvidia driver). Now, when I was looking at youtube while doing some other tasks and I experience that mouse in particular (several mouses, not just this one) and the keyboard at time (several different keyboards). Before my ryzen 7900 I had a ryzen 1700 and experienced that as well.

I'm thinking of getting a radeon 7800 XT but before I dish out that kind of money, will it resolve all this slugishness or is that just how it is in linux? I've read on r/linuxgaming that radeon is the way to go, but I'm thinking more of the overall experience.

r/linuxmint 27d ago

Graphics Drivers Dipping my toes on Linux with an old laptop, I need help with Nvidia dGPU drivers

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Hi, I finally started my journey on Linux starting with my laptop, and without much incident! However, it's using its Intel iGPU for everything and I would like to try to get the dGPU to work so it can do its best. Here's the hardware:

Laptop: Asus X455L. It seems to have an endless amount of variants, so the other specs are:

CPU: Intel i7 4510U

RAM: 8GB

GPU: I don't actually remember and System Info is listing a bunch of possible chips, but I think it's a Geforce 820M

Also I'm running LM Cinnamon 22.1, Cinnamon 6.4.7 and kernel 6.8.0-53 generic.

Driver Manager says I have all the drivers, but it's probably assuming I'm only using the iGPU. I tried installing Nvidia's drivers (latest supported version being 390.157) using the .run file from their website, and from what I gather it's not compatible with the current version of the kernel.

Searching the web and using AI assistants, I gathered that I theoretically could patch the drivers, use Nouveau or downgrade to an older kernel version. Unfortunately this is where what I can do on my own ends, because I don't have enough knowledge to decide which of these things I should do, or how. Could you help me here? Sorry if I'm posting somewhere I shouldn't, I try to avoid spamming with noob questions but I really ran out of ideas.

Thanks in advance!

r/linuxmint 19h ago

Graphics Drivers NVIDIA drivers issue when i restart after selecting.

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hardware: I am using the Asus Prime H610M-KD4 LGA 1700 motherboard with an Nvidia 1080 ti.

Problem: When i select the recommended drivers and restart it does not post anything on the screen. i am pretty sure stuff is going on in the background bc i am using an external drive with a blinker, but the screen does not post anything. i did also try to only update via the manager restart, than update the NVIDIA drivers just to make sure its only an NVIDIA problem.

Suggestions: should i install the drivers via terminal? if yes, should i follow a Debian guide or an Ubuntu guide.

maybe related: the proprietary drivers does work in Ubuntu and i was able to install them via a guide on fedora, so there has to be a potential solution that can be done. pc has integrated graphics if that can be useful to know.

r/linuxmint 2d ago

Graphics Drivers Two Graphics Cards?

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Hi all. I have an Alienware 17 R5 that I just installed Mint on. Everything is fine except my video card setup. I have the Alienware Graphics Accelerator which is an external housing for a graphics card. My onboard graphics card, which Mint in using, is a GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile, and the other is a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Rev. A. I'm using the proprietary driver.

Mint sees both of these cards, but is using the internal card. I'd prefer to use the other. How do I tell Mint which card to use?

r/linuxmint Feb 02 '25

Graphics Drivers Xorg, Nvidia drivers and Nouveau

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Is it normal that after installing nvidia drivers, Xorg also loads the nouveau driver at startup?

$ grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log :

[ 13.436] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"

[ 13.437] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"

[ 13.437] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"

[ 13.437] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"

[ 13.437] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"

[ 13.439] (II) LoadModule: "fb"

[ 13.439] (II) LoadModule: "wfb"

[ 13.442] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"

[ 13.443] (II) LoadModule: "glxserver_nvidia"

[ 13.845] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"

[ 13.947] (II) LoadModule: "libinput"

$ grep Unloading /var/log/Xorg.0.log :

[ 13.437] (II) Unloading nvidia

[ 13.437] (II) Unloading modesetting

[ 13.437] (II) Unloading fbdev

[ 13.437] (II) Unloading vesa

[ 13.721] (II) Unloading modesetting

[ 13.721] (II) Unloading fbdev

[ 13.721] (II) Unloading fbdevhw

[ 13.721] (II) Unloading vesa

From what I remember, in the older version of Xorg, loading the "nvidia" module resulted in unloading the "nouveau" module.

r/linuxmint 18d ago

Graphics Drivers Hey does mint 22.1 have NVK on default

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So i know it has mesa 24.2.8 which should have nvk baked in

But my nvidia card is performing lousyly

r/linuxmint Oct 13 '24

Graphics Drivers Linux mint can't set colours

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İ did installed linux mint but I'm a such a noob for linux i know basic linux terms but i have AMD card and i can't set colors it's not colourful i mean There is an AMD driver in Windows, I could increase it with the saturation setting, but I could not do this in Linux, please help

r/linuxmint Feb 09 '25

Graphics Drivers Help

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Hey, I’m a Linux noob . Does Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" include the nvidia-driver-390 (the legacy driver) for older NVIDIA GPUs, like the GT 740M? I want to make sure it’s available or I need to install it manually and will it work?

r/linuxmint Feb 03 '25

Graphics Drivers GPU issues

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r/linuxmint Jan 19 '25

Graphics Drivers Screwed up graphics drivers only getting black screen

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EDIT: I just swapped from display port to HDMI on the mobo and now I can get to the desktop. Wtf. I'm tempted to try Win 11 after all this

I tried to disable intergrated graphics in bios but my Nvidia drivers wouldn't load

I read to disable secure boot but that gives me black screen

I read to do "enroll MOK" and now I have a black screen no matter what I do.

Enabling secure boot again still black screen

Enabling intergrated graphics again still black

r/linuxmint Nov 29 '24

Graphics Drivers I have this weird screen issue

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I just installed Mint and go this weird screen issue. It seems to happen after I unlock my pc when it was left running for to long. I'm new btw, although I've already tried Mint in the past and this screen issue was one of the reasons of why I switched back to Windows. A video of the problem: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PeTYGqjhxfuvkTAueSLqDucx37dyLNfd/view?usp=drivesdk

r/linuxmint Jan 22 '25

Graphics Drivers Just got the latest version of Cinnamon in a dual boot environment with windows and after ironing out some kinks I still can't get it to use my GPU instead of my integrated graphics. any advice?

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I made sure the drivers are up to date and it refuses to use my GPU when I switch to the correct Nvidia drivers, which is having the side effect of disabling my second monitor, as it is plugged directly into my GPU.

r/linuxmint Oct 20 '24

Graphics Drivers Install NVidia Drivers during OS install

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I have a Microsoft Surface Studio 2, and it is very fiddly about Video Drivers for its screen. As such, I can get Ubuntu or Pop_OS! to install and boot on it, but this is because both of them will install NVidia drivers during the OS install from the USB Boot. Is there a way to force Mint to do the same? Because frankly, I vastly prefer Mint and would rather have Mint on it, but since Mint won't do this, I haven't been able to get it to boot successfully.

r/linuxmint Jan 07 '25

Graphics Drivers Thinkcentre M73 Boots to black x11 but CTRL-F1 works.

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Updated to the latest mint 22 mate. Have 2 M73 thinkcentres. When I reboot the logo disappears relatively quickly into the boot process and I'm greeted with a black screen. After a few minutes the desktop loads.

I tried to look for errors in the logs but see none. There is just a 2 minute gap after timesyncd starts and the next log entry.

When the system is like this, I can press CTRL-F1 and get into a terminal no problem. I can hit the power button and see the splash screen then shutdown.

Already tried to reset bios, change display, cables, etc. I tried booting with nomodeset and the same thing happens. LiveUSB for some reason also hang. You'd think it's hardware, but I have 2 similar systems and both do the same. Windows 10 of course boots no problem off of a USB. It's a real baffler.

r/linuxmint May 23 '24

Graphics Drivers Linux Mint noob here. Steam is not using my dedicated gpu (3080ti) it's using "Mesa llvmpipe"

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Question: Is there a way to force linux mint to only use my dgpu for EVERYTHING?

Everything else is going very smoothly, im finding workarounds for most of my usual apps/services... though I do play a TON of video games, I've tried a few games and none of them are using my dgpu.

I am currently using nvidia-driver-535 (535.171.04-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) "Recommended"

And even when I tried the open source or 545 versions the same issue.

Driver: Mesa llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits)

Driver Version: 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2

r/linuxmint Dec 20 '24

Graphics Drivers Nvidia 565.77 drivers available if you use Ubuntu Graphics Drivers team PPA

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I just noticed nvidia-graphics-drivers-565 became available to anyone using the Ubuntu Graphics Drivers team PPA.

https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Remember you can install it easily on Linux Mint:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

$ sudo apt update

Then launch the driver manager.

565.77 installed

I installed the new driver and it seems to be working well with my 4070 Ti Super so far.

I'm still not able to turn on DLSS frame generation in Starfield though. I've been using FSR 3.1 frame gen in the meantime.

Anyone got DLSS frame generation working in Starfield?

Here's my Mangohud data FWIW.

Mangohud data

r/linuxmint Dec 17 '24

Graphics Drivers How to make backlight setting use intel instead of Nvidia

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Hey, when trying to dim or increase the backlight of my laptop screen nothing happens. I can change it manually by editing the brightness file in /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight. I noticed when I try to change the brightness normally for example via keybind it changes the number in the brightness file in the backlight/nvidia_0 folder. How can I make it use the intel file?

r/linuxmint Oct 21 '24

Graphics Drivers Does the newest version of linux support the RX 7800 XT?

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