Questions about Intel products or technologies. Intel is one of the leading manufacturers of CPUs and motherboards as well as a host of other hardware.
Questions tagged [intel]
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Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915
I upgraded my laptop to have the 4.8 kernel and during the process the following warnings came up.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-040800-generic
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin for module…
Malachi
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How can I get my graphics card to be recognized in System Info?
I am new to Linux/Ubuntu. I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Lenovo IdeaPad y510.
System info says
Graphics: unknown.
Driver: unknown,
Experience: Standard.
What should I do to use all my laptop hardware components to work properly with…
Naveen Reddy
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How do I install the Intel Graphics driver in my system?
Can someone help me out and explain or point me in the right direction on how to check video drivers and see if my video card running okay?
I had 10.04 installed on my Thinkpad r61 with Compiz Manager and life was great, until the machine took water…
John
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What is the difference between x86_64 amd64 and 64 bit?
I use a x86_64 bit Ubuntu, but whenever I try to do a live boot of any other 64 bit images like the GNOME 3.16 which was released yesterday, it does not work?
Also some times when I try a virtual machine of a 64 bit image, it does not work…
jgm
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kidle_inject causing very high load
Whenever kidle_inject starts running on my system the load shoots up. In general it only gets to a load of around this 5.23, 3.65, 2.54 but a lot of the time it jumps up past the 15 mark on each of them. At that point the system grinds to a halt and…
Nalum
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How to disable Page Table Isolation to regain performance lost due to Intel CPU security hole patch?
Because of the current Intel CPU security hole issue, there is a patch expected which slows down the system performance.
How can I make sure that this patch will not be installed on my Ubuntu system?
mahrens61
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Is Turbo Boost Working?
I recently purchased a laptop with a sandy bridge CPU that is supposed to have turbo boost. Is turbo boost supported in 11.04? How can I tell if it's working?
I tried this but it seems to only detect Nehalem CPUs.
gregghz
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32-Bit UEFI Boot Support
I recently purchased a Dell Venue 8 Pro. I have read online about what it needs in order to boot into Ubuntu or any other Linux distro. From what I have gathered, what really needs to happen is 32-bit UEFI support. I got information from several…
spideyclick
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System freezes completely with Intel Bay Trail
My system freezes completely at random, frequent intervals. I started to have the same problem in Ubuntu 14.04 but after recent upgrade to 16.04 there is no improvement, in fact it seems worse.
When it happens, it's impossible to do anything. I've…
Jack Dix
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Should I activate the additional driver: Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs for intel-microcode
I have recently noticed that there is an additional driver called Unknown: Unknown here which was not there before:
I have already read this, and understand why it is there, but my question is, should I activate it? Will this make a difference? Or…
user364819
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What do the different thermal zones actually correspond to?
I've just finished building a new machine with a i9 9900k CPU, a CPU with 1 socket, 8 cores and 16 threads. I installed Ubuntu Bionic on it, and I am just about to add checks to the CPU temperatures.
However, when I run cat…
Oleg
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16.04: How to get the recommended intel-microcode package to fix hyper-threading issue?
The Debian mailing list has a post relevant to some Skylake and Kaby Lake users: [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
Users are to run
grep name /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u
to obtain their processor details and then to…
DK Bose
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How to fix error "Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display"?
When I try to confirm than I can run Unity 3D on my Asus U31SD with intel's i5 Sandy Brigde and Nvidia 520 and Nvidia Optimus I receive this error:
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Of course, I cannot run any of the effects of Ubuntu…
Oscar
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Is there a 64bit version of ubuntu for intel CPUs?
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 that I'm planning on dual booting with. I want to use Ubuntu 13.04, but on the daily builds download page there is only "PC (Intel x86) desktop image" listed for intel, and "64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image" listed for…
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How reinstall the default graphics drivers?
When I installed ubuntu 11.10, 64 bits I didn't have to install any kind of graphics drivers and all 3d efects were working fine. Now, it seems to be that graphics drivers are uninstalled. I can't use unity 3d or any compiz effects.
I have a laptop…
Aikanáro
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