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Not entirely sure on where to go to ask this, but I figure General Help should work.

My laptop is running an AMD A8-7410 with AMD R5 (lspci shows Mullins) Graphics. Ubuntu 19.04 x64
I wanted to...

Minor issue, but I recently installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu(17.10.1) on a laptop of mine. I see GNOME Wayland and GNOME Xorg on the list, but after installing Kodi from their Stable PPA, Kodi...

There isn't anything too important on my SSD, just a couple of large games really.
Because of that I went ahead and tried to install Ubuntu on the USB3 HDD.
I used GNOME Disks to format a 512MB...

Is there a way to pass an argument to ignore the internal SATA controller?
There isn't any problem with it, I just can't disable it in my UEFI for the install. It's time consuming to remove or...

Chromium from the Ubuntu repos works just fine, but I'm trying to get hardware accelerated video decode on my laptop.
I tested ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-beta and ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-dev and...

I've tried using the NVIDIA Settings, but it doesn't help at all really. It only tries to help fix over/underscan.

For computer use, my TV only has 2 HDMI and 1 VGA/RGB port(which I'm not going to...

I'm not having trouble choosing what connection I'm going to use, I should have made that clear sorry.
But I am using it just for video, I have no need of audio from this TV, but I do need Digital...

How do I change the mode from "HDMI" to "DVI/PC" on Ubuntu?
I only need 1360x768(native) from my TV but since it has 1080p+Audio I assume the Drivers and GPU are defaulting to using an HDMI...

Throwing it out there, it may or may not be a contributing factor, but what BIOS version are you running? Could be something with UEFI.
I was working on 2 Toshiba laptops(both same model and have...

Yes I did. I keep track of a lot of things. My whole life has been around computers.

I've still been adding a few machines to that list every now and then as I recall them.

I have an Acer box I...

I did some quick looking up, the GF2 series specifications(by hardware) says it is fully compliant with OpenGL 1.2.
As seen in my previous post, my GF4 MX440 got OpenGL 1.2 so it might not be too...

That IGP probably isn't good enough to run Unity3D(and Unity2D was removed in 12.10).
Just helped someone yesterday trying to use a Radeon 9000 Mobility(which IS supported with OpenGL 1.3) that...

On Lubuntu 14.04.1 LiveCD, I again tested, on my legacy performance build, my FX 5200 and got OpenGL 1.5, and the MX 440 got OpenGL 1.2. Low compliance but still have support. :D Only screened the MX...

Thanks for clarifying the version. Was only going on vague memories.

[Attached] I popped my GeForce 4 MX 440 64MB into my legacy build, and got 1.2 OpenGL acceleration on a LiveCD Lubuntu 14.04.1....

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Any thoughts on i8xx and UniChrome hardware? Few of the computers in my post have such hardware, and I have yet to test them thoroughly or at all.

http://www.mesa3d.org/relnotes/8.0.html...

Have you tried a desktop environment that has no reliance on Unity? Like X/Lubuntu?
I think after 12.10 they removed Unity2D, so it could be calling for Unity3D in turn making it require the...

I keep a good mental record(a little OCD), and most of those machines are out in my shed/workspace. ;)
Every time I get my hands on a new machine, or are fixing one for someone, I run a LiveCD/USB...

How well are the SiS graphics chips supported?

Definitely try to get the Open Source drivers installed. And also, what version of Ubuntu are you using? That would help us out a lot.
nvidia-173 only supports GeForce 5+, so that might not work...

Desktops:
Dell Dimension 8300: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz HT 533, 2.5GB RAM, Radeon 9600 128MB(GeForce 6200 256MB died), Ubuntu 14.04 x32, OpenGL 2.1
Dell OptiPlex GX280: Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz HT 800,...

Just my little bit of input, an option could definitely be a Dual-Boot.
I have quite a collection of older machines here that lost GFX support in later kernels and mesa updates due to hardware...

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/
R100(GL 1.3 Driver/Hardware) and R200(GL 1.3 Driver/1.4 Hardware, I assume it wasn't finished)
Also ...

Could you run lsmod and see if nouveau is loaded.
Also to see if at least the Open Source drivers are being utilized, install the mesa-utils package and run "glxinfo | grep OpenGL" and report back....

Ubuntu 14.04
Dell Dimension 8300
NVIDIA FX 5200 GPU
Works flawlessly.

1: Ubuntu 14.04 x64
2: Toshiba
3: Toshiba Satellite L755D-S5130

Ubuntu installed without a problem on 2 of this model of laptop. All hardware was found and works.
Prior to installing Ubuntu I...