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on Ubuntu Workstation 14.10, I get a green screen (like the blue one of you know who).

I've tried different screen because I thought the first one was dead, but using ubuntu, by a certain time, I've got all freezing on a beautiful green screen.

Do someone ever seen that? What can be the cause? How to repair?

All has worked well during 3 months, and this green screen appeared a few days ago.

I've run the command: lshw -c video

*-display:0             
   description: VGA compatible controller
   product: 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller
   vendor: Intel Corporation
   physical id: 2
   bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
   version: 02
   width: 64 bits
   clock: 33MHz
   capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
   configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
   resources: irq:43 memory:fea00000-feafffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:ecb8(size=8)
*-display:1 UNCLAIMED
   description: Display controller
   product: 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller
   vendor: Intel Corporation
   physical id: 2.1
   bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
   version: 02
   width: 32 bits
   clock: 33MHz
   capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
   configuration: latency=0
   resources: memory:feb00000-febfffff`
Alvar
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tasseb
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The "green screen" isn't Ubuntu specific. My desktop's onboard graphics card died once, and it resulted in a green screen freezing everything. It then subsequently hard crashed.

It sounds a lot like a dying graphics card. The only thing you can really do is get a compatible graphics card for your system (or a replacement motherboard if it's an onboard integrated card) and see if the new graphics card being the only one running resolves the issues.

Note if the machine is a laptop, you'll have to contact the manufacturer of the laptop for parts and service.

Thomas Ward
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