I recently installed Linux Mint 17 on my HP Pavilion zv5000. There is a non-closable dialog box which states:
"Running in software rendering mode
Cinnamon is currently running without video hardware acceleration and, as a result, you may observe much higher than norman CPU usage.
There could be a problem with your drivers or some other issue. For the best experience, it is recommended that you only use this mode for troubleshooting purposes"
It does run much slower than it did with XP H.E.
Does anyone here know of a solution to this issue? Any help will be appreciated.
Hi I a running Ubunto 12.04 on a HP PC with an onboard intel analaog sound card
(ALC662) and a HDMI connection into my TV.
I use this PC for Mythtv and Kodi using the sound over HDMI which works a treat in MythTV however I cannot get the sound to work on Kodi, Firefox or any other app which I presume is down to misconfigured ALSA setup, I had this working previously but it stopped and I am not sure why, possible updates.
sudo aplay -L lists;
Home directory /home/tomc not ours.
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
hdmi_complete
sysdefault:CARD=Intel
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
dmix:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Digital
Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Digital
Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Digital
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=1
HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Digital
Hardware device with all software conversions
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=7
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=8
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=9
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=7
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=8
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=9
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=7
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=8
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=9
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=7
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=8
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=9
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Hardware device with all software conversions
aplay -D plughw:1,7 /home/tomc/adios.wav will play my sample wav file though the
HDMI.
Heres my /etc/asound.conf
pcm.hdmi_hw {
type hw
card 1 # <--- card number
device 7 # <--- device number
}
pcm.hdmi_complete {
type softvol
slave.pcm hdmi_hw
control.name hdmi_volume
control.card 1
}
pcm.!default hdmi_complete
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I dont fully understand ALSA and its
driving me up the wall :-)
Thanks
TomC
Hey there,
I recently switched from windows to linux, but am still having some problems adapting. What bothers me the most is that I cant use my headset properly. When I plug it in without having installed the driver software necessary to run the surround sound, it only sends part of my sound to my headset, the rest gets played by my laptop's speakers. I have tried installing the driver software while working with wine windows program loader, but each time I get the 'sorry, this software is not compatible with your OS'. Does anyone have an idea how I could solve this so I can use my headset properly again? I am running the xUbuntu version.
Thanks in advance!
C Needa
Hello people, im not really new with linux per say, but its the first time that i have this problem, i makes me feel like a newbie!!
well, this is the problem, i've just install linux 17.1 rebecca on my new computer. the installation goes well as usual, but when i log in, appears a new message "running in software rendering mode" and it doesn't recognize my video card, nor i can connect to internet to get the drivers. So i dont know that to do. i would really appreciate your help. Thanks.
P/D: Sorry for my english!!
My computer:
MotherBoard: Gigabyte 990 fxa-ud3
Ram: 8gb
Graphic card: Msi Geforce gtx 960 2gb
Cpu: Amd Fx8320
power sup: sentey 650w
Ten years on Linux and this has me stumped.
So I'm putting it in the Newbie thread.
I pulled an Nvidia card out of my box: I suspected a hardware failure with that.
The gear on the motherboard is Intel. An Intel driver is present, and it seems - judging from the logs - to be loading.
I commented out a lot of xorg.conf. There were things in there to help me get my resolution right.
Gone now, but I purged the Nvidia driver anyway.
( sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia )
But I have no GUI.
The login screen appears as expected, mouse and keyboard work.
But when I log into the GUI I get only wallpaper, no menus nor bars nor buttons, nor anything on a right-click.
FWIW I had been using Metacity until now, rather than the latest Gnome desktop.
A CD-bootable Ubuntu still works fine in this box tonight: that makes me suppose I have eliminated any hardware problems.
Any tips would be gratefully accepted.
I think I have seen advice suggesting that a person should just delete lots of desktop config files in a situation such as this. But to me that seems wrong - or maybe hasty.
So I thought I'd ask first.
Many thanks for any help.
I have a debian OS on a partition on my hard disk (sda1).
There was no sound because the ati rs880/radeon 4200 sound card needed drivers which were only in the debian 'non-free' version'.
So I added the non-free version to my install and also had to make a change to the GRUB bootloader file.
After that, I got sound.
Now I've installed a new debian distro to my second partition - sda2.
This time I ensured I installed the debian non-free version.
But I'm having trouble installing the drivers for the sound card.
I go into Synaptic package manager to install the relevant drivers and it gives me an error message:
Code:
Configuring libfglrx - install Fglrx driver despite unsupported graphics card?
I'm not sure what that means because I want the drivers for my sound card - not graphics.
When I press the 'Help' button, it says:
Code:
This system has a graphics card which is no longer handled by the Fglrx driver...
The above card requires either the non-free legacy Fgrlx driver
(package fgrlx-legacy-driver) or the free Radeon driver (package xserver-xorg-video-radeon).
This is fine because I can just install the 'free Radeon driver'.
But the Help message then says:
Code:
Before the Radeon driver can be used you must remove Fglrx configuration from xorg.conf
(and xorg.conf.d/)
Note that switching to the free Radeon driver requires the fglrx-driver package to be purged (not just removed).
So now I don't know what to do. Has anyone had this error message?
I know I can enable sound and have no problems with the graphics card because that's what happened with my original install on sda1.
But with the install on sda2, I don't know how to approach this problem.
Can anyone help please?
Hi,
This problem seems to have some common solutions, none of which have worked for me so far.
I get this when opening software center in the past few hours:
"New software can't be installed, because there is a problem with the software currently installed. Do you want to repair this problem now?"
Clicking "repair" several times hasn't fixed it, nor have commands like:
Code:
sudo apt-get -f install
and
Code:
sudo apt-get upgrade
Though these have been mentioned elsewhere as solutions for a few people.
My OS otherwise seems to run pretty normally, as far as someone as green as me can tell.
Any fixes for this? I'd hate to format again, especially since my complicated Steam setup takes so long to complete. Thanks!
Hello,
As of 2 days ago, I am having a new problem watching Amazon Prime videos with Flash Player. I'm running Linux Mint 13 on a Dell desktop, with Firefox 37.0.1 and Adobe Flash Player 11. I have a 7mbps internet connection.
The problem is that two days ago, the video quality on my Amazon Prime got stuck at 348 kbps. Prior to that, I was able to watch Prime videos in HD. Now, I can't.
Here are the things I have tried so far:
1. I restarted my computer and modem multiple times.
2. I ran multiple speed tests at speedtest.net to verify that my internet connection is working properly.
3. I went to YouTube and sampled a couple of 1080p videos to make sure I could view video properly on sites other than Amazon. I had no problem streaming the YouTube videos in HD.
4. I tried watching the same Amazon Prime video in Chrome with Pepperflash. This didn't work at all -- after the video finished loading, I got a black screen.
5. I cleared my Firefox and Adobe Flash caches. (For the Adobe Flash cashes, I first tried the Flash Player control panel. When that didn't work, I used the macromedia page he http://www.macromedia.com/support/do...manager06.html
6. I uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe Flash multiple times from the software repository.
7. I manually deleted the .adobe, .mozilla, and .macromedia files so they would be rebuilt.
8. I verified that HAL is installed.
Does anyone have other suggestions? I did call Amazon last night, and eventually got a tech support person who is a Linux user himself. He checked the log and verified that I was able to stream videos at HD speeds as recently as 2 days ago. He said that usually the steps I took would fix the problem, so it might be an Amazon issue, but also said that if he tried to report it it would probably get bounced because I am a Linux user and Amazon does not support Linux. I asked him please to try anyway, but thought I would check here in the meantime.
Thanks.
OK, so I'm really new at this. And I just figured out how to download google earth. But then when I went to open it, it sadi that my graphics card was insufficient to run the graphics. Soooooo
1. What the heck IS a graphics card? Is it a piece of hardware or software?
2. How do I find out what kind I have?
3. How do I update it?
Thanks! I don't know what I'd do without ya!
Hi all,I'm new member of this forum.
I started using linux 1-2 month ago and I like it.
On elementary OS, youtube video has bad,low quality.
The same video on windows has good quality.
Also on Linux Mint it has also good quality.
I've main problem with elementary os.
I've Intel HD 3000 video card(VGA)
Hp 4330s laptop.
What can I do?