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How do I interpret the output of intel-gpu-top and intel-gpu-overlay?

I have these commands compiled and running but their contents are a bit of a mystery to me. The processes from intel-gpu-overlay read something like: 15R, 16B, 41ms waits. What is an R, what is a B,...
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How to install Rocks Cluster using WiFi (Intel Wireless N)

I only have access to WiFi (not ethernet) and need to install Rocks Cluster, which is based on CentOS. I keep getting stuck on the network configuration. I installed Debian on the same computer using ...
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Problem using graphic Cards

I'm using manjaro on my U510. I have 2 Graphic Cards and I hava proble using them. How can I use NVIDIA card instead of Intel?
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Can't run intel power gadget

First time posting here. I'm trying to monitor my CPU activity with the Intel power-gadget tool, that can be found on Intel's web site. As the Readme file said, I execute the following lines make ./...
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Linux kernel - issues with Intel Pentium g4400 gpu drivers

I tried to install both Debian and Ubuntu last versions as virtual machines, but I couldn't use neither because of an issue with my Intel Pentium g4400. The fact is that Debian gives a white error ...
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Understanding Machine Check Exceptions (MCE)

While trying to debug frequent freezes of my new laptop (KabyLake architecture) running Ubuntu 16.04 I've stumbled upon these entries in kern.log: kernel: [ 0.041634] mce: [Hardware Error]: ...
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Determine if Intel I processor or RAM has hardware failure?

I have the suspicion that either my Intel I2500K has a hardware problem or the RAM has a hardware problem. How can i determine if there is hardware failure or exclude that?
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Refreshing graphics buffer (or something like this) in Jessie

I have a Dell Latitude E4200 (Intel graphics) and Debian Jessie. When under stress, the graphics break to the effect that patterns and fonts get distorted. This picture shows this a little, as it's ...
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Centrino N-6205 iwn0 driver - No Link attempting to connect to wifi (OpenBSD 6.0)

After reading the iwn manpage I downloaded the latest firmware from: http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/6.0/ and unzipped the contents into /etc/firmware, after doing that I configured /etc/...
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Laptop running hotter on Mint than Windows

I've recently installed (dualboot) Linux Mint 18 on my Sony Vaio svt15115cxs and noticed that it's running louder than on windows, so I checked the temps, and found, that while under load (eg. ...
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Linux Mint Reboot instead of shutdown [duplicate]

I have set up Linux Mint 18 (Cinnamon) on a Gigabyte GB-BXBT-2807 (Intel Celeron N2807). It works fine except to shutdown. The computer is off for some seconds and reboot. I have to shutdown for some ...
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Activate HDMI output without using as desktop

I have an Intel card, and it appears that it is not possible to just stream audio and no video. So is there a way to just activate the port and send a dummy video signal to have audio working? I do ...
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FreeBSD snd_hda configuring audio device

I have a Macbook Pro 11,3 with it's sound hardware on FreeBSD. With some help I was able to configure my hardware to have headphone output but internal speakers just does not work. Here is my original ...
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Gnome crashes on Shutter screencap and closing of VLC player

I have a problem with my Fedora 24 installation: On some specific UI Action, the gnome shell crashes. Two of the actions fail nearly every time: Closing the VLC player while it is playing a video ...
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Debian 8 Mute Audio on Intel NUC

I cannot get sound output on my Debian 8 install despite signs of intel audio drivers loaded properly. Monitor volume is up and audio works fine booting up from an Ubuntu 16 USB, so the hardware seems ...
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Debian testing unable to get screen information and control brightness with Gnome 3.21.90

After upgrading Debian testing on Dell XPS13 (2015) yesterday, to Gnome 3.21.90, none of the Gnome applications are able to get screen information anymore, and brightness control broke (Fn+F11 and Fn+...
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How to enable Bluetooth *automatically at boot* for recent Intel and Broadcom chipsets relying on btattach?

Some recent Bluetooth chipsets from Intel and Broadcom need to run the btattach command in user-space for Bluetooth to be enabled properly (it "attaches" the BT chipset and triggers the loading of the ...
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Intel C compiler doesn't work with sudo

I can compile using icc just fine: akady@TermintX ~/Test $ icc HelloWorld.c akady@TermintX ~/Test $ ls a.out HelloWorld.c akady@TermintX ~/Test $ ./a.out Hello World But ...
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Can't connect to bluetooth devices (i.e. speakers) on debian jessie

I have a debian jessie on a Dell Vostro 5870. Everytime I try to connect to my bluetooth speaker, I get this error from /var/syslog: bluetoothd[1326]: a2dp-sink profile connect failed for C8:84:47:F7:...
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Set power limit to Intel rapl

Recent enough Intel processor use the Intel rapl driver for energy management. This driver makes use of two power limit, the short term power limit, that allows higher power for short term thanks to ...
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Intel Braswell Integrated Graphics on Debian Jessie

I'm having trouble getting Jessie to use the integrated graphics on a Celeron N3050 (Braswell). I've tried installing xserver-xorg-video-intel from jessie-backports but this doesn't help. glxinfo | ...
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Intel Ethernet Connection I219-V not working under Linux on an ASUSPRO B laptop, e1000e driver reports: “The NVM Checksum Is Not Valid”

I have a problem with an ASUSPRO B8430UA laptop: when I boot it with Ubuntu 16.04 (or NixOS 16.03) the Ethernet port does not work. The driver used is e1000e, it reports: $ dmesg | grep e1000e [ ...
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Webcam Intel Realsense not working on Fedora

My laptop carries an Intel RealSense F200 webcam that isn't working properly on Fedora, when I start the webcam the output image is green with my silhouette. I searched the net and found this library ...
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Difference between intel-driver and GPU

I have a i7-6700 HQ and therefore a HD Graphics 530 integrated However I'm confused about "what-is-what" in my system since my kernel is using a driver called i915. Is this the "main" driver for ...
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Load Lakka(linux based) onto the Intel Compute Stick?

Okay, so I have recently purchased an Intel Compute Stick and I have noted that it can either take Windows 10 or Linux operating systems. My main goal was to us Lakka, a linux based retro console, in ...
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WiFi suddenly stopped working

I have access to internet using a cable. I have an HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook and I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS. $ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:2e:5f:73:8c:9b inet adr:192....
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What is maximum size of any memory segment goes in real life coding?

I'm reading about the x86, In that they have mentioned segment size can go upto 4GB (in 32-bit) architecture. Does anybody knows or experienced the segment size going beyond limit? Or upto what ...
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Permanent shrill sound on ubuntu since buggy vlc video

A video with a buggy, or at least too complex soundtrack broke my Intel Ivy Bridge (i5-3337U) laptop running Ubuntu 15.10. In the middle of VLC playing the video, a shrill, slightly grating sound ...
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Intel AC 7260 No Wireless Function on Linux Mint 17 with Kernel 4.2.0-35

I have seen a lot of older threads about this specific card, and in most of them they find some sort of solution. I have yet to find one, however. My box is currently running Mint 17 Qiana 64-bit with ...
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How to interpret perf -e cache-misses:pp?

I find the behavior of perf top -e cache-misses:pp -p <my_pid> quite confusing. I own an Intel i5-3230M, running kernel 4.4.5 64 bit. If I just run that commmand, I get basically no samples ...
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No sound in Debian 7

I've installed Debian 7 but there is no sound. The motherboard is H110M-D D3. Is there any way besides upgrading the kernel to make the audio work? I've tried the most common solutions (mute in ...
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Suspend not working on elementary os freya (ubuntu 14.04 based distro)

The problem with suspend is it is reverting back to live after 1-2 seconds of suspension. When I hit the suspend button it suspends as it should but after 1-2 seconds it become active. I am absolutely ...
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Why Intel MKL is so fast than ATLAS??

I'm constructing parallel computing system. When I used intel mkl, The hpl benchmark flops is more than two times faster than that of ATALS. Installation procedure of ATLAS is very long. As i know ...
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Gnome shell on debian use to much resources

I recently install debian 8 on my system and install gnome. But after working for couple of minutes I notice that my battery is discharging very fast. So I check CPU usage and it using half of CPU ...
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Linux Mint & t420s

I have installed Linux mint 4.3 64bit and it seems to run without problems out of the box. I notice a highly increasing of temperature while watching movie via youtube or some website where it has to ...
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Networking problem with new Intel NUC

I recently got a new Intel NUC6i5SYH to replace my very old and not too powerful home server. I've installed XenServer 6.5.0 (as was on the old server) and plan to just copy over the VM's and other ...
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LLVM error instead of 3D acceleration in Debian stable

I've installed Debian stable (Jessie) on a Acer Notebool (Aspire ES 15). If I try to start some programs (qtcreator, processing) I see: LLVM ERROR: Cannot select: intrinsic %llvm.x86.sse41.pblendvb ...
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Graphics glitches on Intel HD Graphics 530

What's the cause of these glitches: https://youtu.be/llS6JwZAT74 ? The horizontal lines appear on screen redraw. They happen most often on Alt-Tab, or switching to desktop (as in the video). The ...
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Do all intel gpu's use software rendering (Mesa) only?

I was looking at :- $ glxinfo | grep OpenGL OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 ...
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intel driver on nvidia optimus laptop not recognizing internal display

I have a ThinkPad W520 laptop with an nVidia optimus display. I recently upgraded my linux system to linux-4.2.5 and nvidia-358 and now I cannot get the internal display to be available for X11. ...
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Xorg on skylake graphics hangs

I've bought msi gs40 that has intel i7 6700HQ which means integrated graphics hd 530. After a day of struggling I was able to start xorg with HD530. For this I addes i915 to initramfs and i915....
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Wifi drivers not installing

I just got myself a laptop with a Intel dual band 8260 Wifi adapter and I've installed linux on it but it doesn't install my drivers. This is a modinfo for iwlwifi filename: /lib/modules/4.0.0-...
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Intel Skylake + DisplayPort 1.2 MST/Daisy chain on Linux

I am planning to buy hardware for using DisplayPort 1.2's MST feature to daisy chain two monitors in combination with the Intel Core i5 6600 Skylake processor on Ubuntu. Is this supported yet with the ...
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Kali linux intel wireless drivers

I'm looking for these drivers online but I can't find any. Anyone had a same problem? My wireless adapter is Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260
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Restore errors: “bad header/extent: invalid magic - magic 1701”

I'm testing these instructions to restore a backup image to an Intel Edison from a previous .img image. The backup line was: dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=sd/ubilinux_image.img I removed a file (to see if ...
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Kali linux installation issue

I have tried to install kali linux on my pc like a thousand times(10 times really) without success. I have a HP 15 laptop, 4GB RAM, 2.16ghz, 500GB HDD with intel pentium processor. The installation ...
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Emulated Graphics on Arch Linux?

I've made an installation of ArchLinux on a new HP Envy 13 (i5-6200U). I've configured the distribution to use GNOME for the Graphics Display Manager (GDM). My trouble is that for a new laptop, the ...
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USB wifi not working

I've connected AWUS036H usb wifi dongle. On the notebook I already have an internal wifi card using the iwlwifi driver (intel). This uses the rl2800usb and shows as (disabled) when viewing the list of ...
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enable i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 in fedora

I have a intel skylake cpu and I read this article in Phoronix http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=intel-skl-prelim-support, claiming some issues are present at this moment and the ...
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What does iwa/iwl/iwm/iwn mean in FreeBSD?

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T440 which I was looking to install FreeBSD on. The laptop has an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 chip which doesn’t seem to be supported (yet). On my travels, researching ...