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:
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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:
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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:
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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?
new computer from boxes, does not install nvidia driver
Booted from USB then ran YaST, I am new with OpenSuse but have two times before installed OpenSuse on fresh HDD's and Nvidia cards with ease.
The symptoms are like when I switched from a GTX 640 that only has mother board power to the GTX 750 Ti and needed power that I did not connect at first. Until I added extra power to the graphics card I only got a single low res VGA output. This 750 card definitely has power but still can only provide single low res to VGA output.
Terminal (dmesg) ......The NVIDIA GPU 0000:01:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:1380)installed in this system is not supported by the 304.125 NVIDIA Linux driver release. Please see 'Appendix A - supported NVIDIA GPU Products' in this release's README, available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. .... None of the VVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized!
Terminal (uname -r) 3.16.7-21 -default [OpenSuse version]
Terminal (/sbin/lspci) VGA Compatible controller: Nvidia Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] (rev 02)
have tried:
1. different power cables to graphic card
2. two GTX 750 Ti cards, neither work.
3. re-installed OpenSuse
4. removed card and mother board can run two monitors in high res. DVI cables are new and work. Monitors (4) are all AOC i2367 and working.
5. added to repository 'bumblebee' which contains NVIDIA drivers and tried rebooting. I am not good at repositories yet. However, I didn't need to do this twice before on new installs with NVIDIA cards.
6. downloaded from www.geforce.com file:///home/shark/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.72(1).run but when I run it error, "The file /home/shark/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.72(3).run was opened with UTF-8 encoding but contained invalid characters."It is set to read-only mode, as saving might destroy its content.
Either reopen the file with the correct encoding chosen or enable the read-write mode again in the menu to be able to edit it."
Hardware list: Asus H81M-E motherboard, i5 4460 CPU, 550W power, Asus GeForce GTX 750 Ti graphic card,
Note: two graphic cards on hand, both work in another OpenSuse computer.
I am just learning Linux so I need simple step by step instructions.
Thank you in advance.
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 LQ,
I am currently experiencing an issue on a fresh install of Mint 17.1 Cinnamon in which I am permanently stuck in fallback mode (that is, unless I hard shutdown or reboot) on an aging laptop with AMD Radeon HD 4200 graphics (considered legacy). I believe this issue was caused by a failed install of AMD's latest linux graphics drivers, in which I literally opened the .run file and attempted to install. The install failed (some error), of course, but when I rebooted, I was kicked into fallback. After some googling, I autoremoved fglrx then installed fglrx, as I read would reinstall fglrx, the proprietary drivers for AMD cards and rebooted. Still stuck in fallback. I removed and installed Xorg and rebooted. Still stuck in fallback. I downloaded the AMD legacy drivers from AMD's site (my card's series included with this set). Had to change the permissions to run this .run file but eventually ran it from terminal, but this install also failed (claimed I was missing tool(s), despite not indicating precisely what I was missing). I'm still rummaging around for fixes, but maybe asking can help. I can provide some more info below, but let me know what else you need (and how to get it) if you wish to help. I really want linux to work out for me instead of shelling out $$ for Windows, but so far this has been a rocky start. Thanks
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inxi -G
yields
Code:
Graphics: Card: AMD RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250]
X.Org: 1.15.1
drivers: fbdev,ati,radeon (unloaded: fglrx,vesa)
Resolution: 1024x768@76hz
GLX Renderer: N/A
GLX Version: N/A
Code:
lshw -C video
yields
Code:
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250]
vendor: AMD
physical id: 5
...(bunch of stuff on specs)
Have also did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.
Still no luck, let me know what you think.
So total Linux noob here, so I apologize for poor wording or not being able to understand anything!
So I want to love Linux (mint, btw) I really do, but my one problem is that I can't run games because, despite having the HDMI cord running through the graphics card, Linux is for some reason using the Intel integrated graphics as a renderer. Now, I have no tools to totally confirm this (I primarily use MSI Afterburner on windows) other than noticing that any linux games I have run sort of poorly (none of the games I have for linux other than Witcher 2 are demanding enough to be obvious). So how do I (or can I even) use my AMD card as a renderer? After looking around for solutions, I've picked up that AMD/Linux support is sort of poor, but is it really excluding me from using my card at all?! Thanks!
Hello,
I have recently installed Elementary OS on my HP 550 laptop. While everything is running as expected, I've run into a small problem when attempting to watch videos on Youtube using Chromium.
The video loads fine but displays little yellow rectangles all over the video. According to Youtube, Chromium uses HTML5 rather than Flash - maybe that is the issue - but I am thinking it maybe a graphics driver issue. The videos run absolutely fine on Firefox and will stick to that if necessary, but I would prefer to use Chromium.
I have tried using
Code:
gksu jockey-gtk
and it couldnt find any drivers to install.
This
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lspci | grep VGA
says:
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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
Many Thanks
Hello
I have linux mint 17.1 cinnamon installed on my computer, but the surround sound is not working (I only get stereo from two speakers)
When I run lspci I can see that my card is called
C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/CMI8768 PCI Audio (rev 10)
there is another embeded card that came with my computer called
[AMD/ATI] Trinity HDMI Audio Controller
but I have my speakers hooked up to the first one and I have selected this card in the "output device" option on the lower right hand side of the screen, and I have selected the sound setting "analgog 4.0 surround".
My surround sound used to work when I had windows xp and xubuntu installed on an older computer with the same surround sound card attached. So I can't understand why it is not working now.
Can anyone help me with this?
when I run
aplay -l
I get:
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 0: CMI8738 [C-Media PCI DAC/ADC]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 1: CMI8738 [C-Media PCI 2nd DAC]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 2: CMI8738 [C-Media PCI IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
inxi -Fzx
System: Host: rene-linuxmint Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca
Machine: System: Gigabyte product: N/A
Mobo: Gigabyte model: F2A58M-DS2H version: x.x Bios: American Megatrends version: F1 date: 04/28/2014
CPU: Dual core AMD A4-4000 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 11977.2
Clock Speeds: 1: 1400.00 MHz 2: 1400.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7480D] bus-ID: 00:01.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1600x900@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD ARUBA GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Trinity HDMI Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:01.1
Card-2: C-Media CMI8738/CMI8768 PCI Audio driver: snd_cmipci port: d000 bus-ID: 03:06.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-37-generic
Network: Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 820.2GB (35.7% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD3200AVCS size: 320.1GB
2: USB id: /dev/sdc model: MQ01ABD050 size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID: / size: 290G used: 21G (8%) fs: ext4
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 0.4C mobo: N/A gpu: -3.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 169 Uptime: 4:07 Memory: 1209.9/3068.3MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4
aplay -L
default
Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0
HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=HDMI,DEV=3
HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0
Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=HDMI,DEV=3
HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0
Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=HDMI,DEV=3
HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=HDMI,DEV=3
HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0
Hardware device with all software conversions
sysdefault:CARD=CMI8738
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
Front speakers
rear:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
Rear speakers
surround40:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
iec958:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
dmix:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=1
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
Direct sample mixing device
dmix:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=2
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI IEC958
Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=1
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
Direct sample snooping device
dsnoop:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=2
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI IEC958
Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=1
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
Direct hardware device without any conversions
hw:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=2
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI IEC958
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=1
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
Hardware device with all software conversions
plughw:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=2
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI IEC958
Hardware device with all software conversions
I'm having some problems changing the EEPROM regulatory domain for my wireless card (ar9580 locked to US 0x0). I can't operate on the frequencies that I'm allowed to use. I've tried changing db.txt with no luck. It adds a couple of extra channels, but not the full channel list that im allowed to use.
I want to try to modify my ath9k driver so that it overrides the EEPROM, but im not really sure how to. I've found some patches to help modify the driver (Openwrt) but I dont know how to add them.
So my question is:
- Do I have to recompile my kernel (3.18.0-kali1-amd64) to add the patches from openwrt), or do I have to download the openwrt image to be able to use the patches? Or have i got it totally wrong and there's another way to do this?
Any help is very much appreciated.
Regards Mak - Makservice@icloud.com
I'm trying to underclock my netbook's CPU (Intel Atom D2500) in order to save some precious energy.
I tried using the cpufreq utility. However, cpufreq-info yields the following output:
Code:
analyzing CPU 0:
no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU
maximum transition latency: 0.00 ms.
analyzing CPU 1:
no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU
maximum transition latency: 0.00 ms.
So I tried sudo modprobe acpi-cpufreq and other combinations as suggested elsewhere. Loading these modules usually yields
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ERROR: could not insert 'acpi_cpufreq': No such device
So I thought the BIOS doesn't allow scaling. Its configuration is very limited, though, and I couldn't find anything related.
My BIOS is the following (sudo dmidecode):
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BIOS Information
Vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
Version: CDVW712M[2012/04/14] X64
Release Date: 09/18/2012
Address: 0xE0000
Runtime Size: 128 kB
ROM Size: 2048 kB
Characteristics:
PCI is supported
BIOS is upgradeable
BIOS shadowing is allowed
Boot from CD is supported
Selectable boot is supported
EDD is supported
Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
Serial services are supported (int 14h)
Printer services are supported (int 17h)
CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
NEC PC-98
ACPI is supported
USB legacy is supported
BIOS boot specification is supported
Function key-initiated network boot is supported
Targeted content distribution is supported
BIOS Revision: 0.1
I couldn't find any information about this BIOS model. Any pointers?
I'm having trouble getting OS installs to work on this low-end laptop. I've tried Linux Mint, OpenSuse, Manjaro, Zorin OS Core 9 (32bit, 64bit and lite versions). My problem is that once installed, the graphics aren't rendered correctly or (with Zorin) the system would freeze right after logging in. Manjaro did install and work, but the screen was so dark it was unusable, even after adjusting the brightness levels. With Linux Mint, the compatibility mode worked perfectly using the live cd, but the graphics were too distorted once installed. OpenSuse also had distorted graphics. I just want to put the laptop to use until it dies on my.
I've tested the hard drive with the on board diagnostics and I've checked the memory. Neither of those tests gave any errors.
The specs a
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core TK-55
2 gigs of DDR2 memory
Nvidia GeForce Go 6100 graphics card.
Any help would be appreciated. I'm not an expert, so be gentle with the help and recommendations.