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Questions tagged [graphics]

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How to disable VGA on new server... reversibly?

Strange question here. I have a server with 1GB of RAM, however when booted this shows as 768MB. I've discovered the reason for it – and that is that it has an unboard graphics card which shares memory with main RAM. Running Ubuntu Server, it…
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Need a solution to stop students from rotating screen on laptops with intel graphics

We have some students who have figured out how to rotate the screen using either the hotkey combination or right click context menu. It's easy to fix but it's time consuming because no matter how many times I tell people how to fix it there's always…
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Dual monitors with dual Graphics Cards

Setting up a development machine, I was wondering about the way I should connect the displays. The machine has two monitors and also has two graphics cards (2x GeForce 9800 GTX+) both having 2 DVI ports. What I have been wondering is if it better…
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Simulate a Graphics Card for a Windows VPS with no Graphics Card

Considering you have a VPS Windows Server and want to run an application that requires to have a graphics card having 64MB of RAM, could you somehow simulate that graphics card to run the application or is it inevitable to install a physical…
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Install Display Card In ProLiant DL580 Gen8 Server

We have a ProLiant DL580 Gen8 Server and want to install Gigabyte GForce GTX 980 ti Display Card in PCIE slot, When we connect 8 pins sockets power, server could not turn on, and when power socket not connected, server starts but the graphic card…
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Installing a dual display graphics card in a Windows 2008 server

Trying to hook up a Dell Poweredge T620 to 2 27" monitors via a PNY Nvidia NVS 310. Server running Windows 2008 R2 Standard SP1. Nothing fancy, but need a very large desktop area (2 x 2560 x 1440). Fitted the card into the 'SLOT2 PCIE_G3_X16(CPU1)'…
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Troubleshoot mstsc /span from Windows XP to Windows Server 2008

At work, I often use the "mstsc" command to use the Microsoft Terminal Services Client and remote to another machine. In my case, I'm using Windows XP (call this box 1) to connect to a Windows Server 2008 box (call this box 2). I'd like to be able…
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How to find an HP desktop/workstation with PCIe power and room for double-high card

I am searching for an HP desktop or workstation with an Intel i5 or i7 processor that would support a "large" graphics card like an ATI Radeon 6850, which has two PCIe power inlets and which takes up two slots worth of PCI height (like most…
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Real-time Image Resize, Cropping and Caching Server Product

I'm investigating what products are out there that will allow you to request images through a HTTP API in arbitrary image sizes. The server would behind a CDN but would still need to be able to handle a fair bit of traffic and be possibly…
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Two identical displays, two identical graphics cards, totally different picture quality

UPDATE - Definitely a driver issue. Problem goes away when I uninstall nvidia drivers, comes back when I reinstall them. I'm having a really strange hardware problem. I have a workstation with two displays, they're both identical V173 ACER monitors.…
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How to disable integrated intel graphics and use shared RAM for the Linux

Given a server with Intel E3-1275 v6 CPU, is it possible to instruct Linux kernel to stop using the integrated graphics and restore video RAM back to OS? I'd prefer using a kernel command line flag and disable the integrated graphics during linux…
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Rackspace hardware acceleration

I am using a Windows Server 2008 on Rackspace and I need to use some of its Direct3D capabilities (for Microsoft Office extra functionality). However, I can't because the system reports that I only have a 'Standard VGA adapter' installed. How should…
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Fancy graphing for network traffic

I'm currently looking for a solution that would allow me to easily graph traffic on a network. Basically what I'm looking for is anything that could actively provide graphs/charts/colors etc. for our management to see "whats going on" in the…
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What causes this error message "SELinux: Disabled on system, not enabling in X server" when running Xvfb?

I am trying to run Xvfb :1 in Fedora 11 on a headless server, but I get the following error message: SELinux: Disabled on system, not enabling in X server (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
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Kickass utility for displaying real-time firewall activity

I've seen this utility in use, so I know it exists. I've scoured Google for an hour but can't turn up anything besides hosts3d, which isn't it. This utility would run on a firewall box (or in-line with a gateway). It shows graphically packets being…
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