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tekdad wrote:THIS IS FOR INTEL GRAPHICS -

Just fixed my mother's PC stuck in software rendering mode. I tried everything in this thread, plus some more. This is what fixed it.
From here.

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$ sudo cp /etc/lsb-release /etc/lsb-release.bak 
$ sudo pico /etc/lsb-release

"Replace with (I'm not sure exactly which lines are being checked here by intel-linux-graphics-installer, but definitely not the last one.)

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=13.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=raring
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 15 Olivia"
"
THIS IS FOR INTEL GRAPHICS -
And then from here.

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echo "deb https://download.01.org/gfx/ubuntu/13.04/main Ubuntu 13.04 #Intel Graphics drivers" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/intellinuxgraphics.list

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wget --no-check-certificate https://download.01.org/gfx/RPM-GPG-KEY-ilg -O - | sudo apt-key add -
wget --no-check-certificate https://download.01.org/gfx/RPM-GPG-KEY-ilg-2 -O - | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update

THIS IS FOR INTEL GRAPHICS -
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sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

(but make sure this command doesn't try to remove any packages and if for some reason it does, abort and disable the repository) - mine did not.

reboot, and it was fixed. No software rendering mode warning, no high CPU usage, and all videos and content played and scrolled smoothly.

This was for intel, but I am looking for a similar fix for both nvidia and ati.

Let me know how it goes if you have this problem with Intel Graphics drivers. There went two weeks that I'll never get back.

tekdad wrote:THIS IS FOR INTEL GRAPHICS -

Just fixed my mother's PC stuck in software rendering mode. I tried everything in this thread, plus some more. This is what fixed it.
From here.

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$ sudo cp /etc/lsb-release /etc/lsb-release.bak 
$ sudo pico /etc/lsb-release

"Replace with (I'm not sure exactly which lines are being checked here by intel-linux-graphics-installer, but definitely not the last one.)

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=13.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=raring
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 15 Olivia"
"
THIS IS FOR INTEL GRAPHICS -
And then from here.

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echo "deb https://download.01.org/gfx/ubuntu/13.04/main Ubuntu 13.04 #Intel Graphics drivers" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/intellinuxgraphics.list

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wget --no-check-certificate https://download.01.org/gfx/RPM-GPG-KEY-ilg -O - | sudo apt-key add -
wget --no-check-certificate https://download.01.org/gfx/RPM-GPG-KEY-ilg-2 -O - | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update

THIS IS FOR INTEL GRAPHICS -
Then:

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sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

(but make sure this command doesn't try to remove any packages and if for some reason it does, abort and disable the repository) - mine did not.

reboot, and it was fixed. No software rendering mode warning, no high CPU usage, and all videos and content played and scrolled smoothly.

This was for intel, but I am looking for a similar fix for both nvidia and ati.

Let me know how it goes if you have this problem with Intel Graphics drivers. There went two weeks that I'll never get back.