[SOLVED] Your system is currently running without video hardware acceleration

[FilthySins]

Your system is currently running without video hardware acceleration, you may experience poor performance and high CPU usage.
Linux Mint Cinnamon

Hello,
I need some help. So first my Linux update manager wouldn't update and then I did a lot of stuff and finally fixed it. Then when I rebooted my resolution became 640x800 and I fixed it with the terminal GRUB=AAAAxBBBB (a and b is the res) I wrote 1680x1050 and then it was fixed but now I am experiencing this problem Your system is currently running without video hardware acceleration, you may experience poor performance and high CPU usage.

[Aztaroth]

Your system is currently running without video hardware acceleration, you may experience poor performance and high CPU usage.
Linux Mint Cinnamon

Hello,
I need some help. So first my Linux update manager wouldn't update and then I did a lot of stuff and finally fixed it. Then when I rebooted my resolution became 640x800 and I fixed it with the terminal GRUB=AAAAxBBBB (a and b is the res) I wrote 1680x1050 and then it was fixed but now I am experiencing this problem Your system is currently running without video hardware acceleration, you may experience poor performance and high CPU usage.

Won't be enough for help. Please post output of

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inxi -Fxxxz

terminal command to help helpers to help you.

[FilthySins]

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inxi -Fxxxz

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ahmed@AHMED-NITRO-50:~$ inxi -Fxxxz
System:
  Kernel: 5.11.0-40-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.7 wm: muffin 5.0.2 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Acer model: Nitro N50-600 v: V:1.1 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: R01-D1 date: 04/08/2020 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i5-8400 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake rev: A L2 cache: 9216 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 33599 
  Speed: 3746 MHz min/max: 800/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 
  3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] 
  vendor: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire driver: N/A bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 10de:1b81 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: fbdev,nouveau 
  unloaded: modesetting,vesa resolution: 1680x1050~77Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 12.0.0 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 21.0.3 
  compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP104 High Definition Audio 
  vendor: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:10f0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-40-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:a370 
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 
  bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 179.63 GiB (15.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Micron model: 1100 MTFDDAV256TBN size: 238.47 GiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: A020 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM010-2EP102 size: 931.51 GiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: CC43 scheme: GPT 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 
  port: 5020 bus ID: 00:17.0 chip ID: 8086.2822 rev: 10 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 233.24 GiB used: 179.62 GiB (77.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 249 Uptime: 3h 16m Memory: 7.69 GiB used: 2.15 GiB (28.0%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 

[djph]

you seem to be missing the nvidia drivers. Did you update the kernel from an earlier version (5.4, 5.8, etc)? That usually causes problems.

Easiest fix I'm aware of
1. purge nvidia* from the system (e.g. sudo apt-get purge nvidia*)
1.1 Might want a timeshift backup before doing this, just in case
2. reboot
3. reinstall the recommended nvidia-xxx driver from driver manager

[FilthySins]

Before I do that, I have the recommended Nvidia drivers and the Linux Kernel version 5.11.0-40-generic which is supported until February 2022. I see here that there is another kernel (5.13.0-21) which is supported until August 2022. Which one do you recommend me to have active and how do you make a backup?

Thank you.

[djph]

Before I do that, I have the recommended Nvidia drivers and the Linux Kernel version 5.11.0-40-generic which is supported until February 2022. I see here that there is another kernel (5.13.0-21) which is supported until August 2022. Which one do you recommend me to have active and how do you make a backup?

Thank you.

either kernel option is fine, although you might wanna jump to 5.13 just for the longer support window (i mean, you'll kind of "have" to come February anyway)

[FilthySins]

Before I do that, I have the recommended Nvidia drivers and the Linux Kernel version 5.11.0-40-generic which is supported until February 2022. I see here that there is another kernel (5.13.0-21) which is supported until August 2022. Which one do you recommend me to have active and how do you make a backup?

Thank you.

either kernel option is fine, although you might wanna jump to 5.13 just for the longer support window (i mean, you'll kind of "have" to come February anyway)

Okay, I will switch to the 5.13 kernel. How do I make a backup though?

[Aztaroth]

Before I do that, I have the recommended Nvidia drivers and the Linux Kernel version 5.11.0-40-generic which is supported until February 2022. I see here that there is another kernel (5.13.0-21) which is supported until August 2022. Which one do you recommend me to have active and how do you make a backup?

Thank you.

either kernel option is fine, although you might wanna jump to 5.13 just for the longer support window (i mean, you'll kind of "have" to come February anyway)

Okay, I will switch to the 5.13 kernel. How do I make a backup though?

System snaps are usually Timeshift's job. Take a snapshot before upgrading or installing any driver. By the way, does the driver manager say something about your nvidia drivers ?

[SMG]

Then when I rebooted my resolution became 640x800 and I fixed it with the terminal GRUB=AAAAxBBBB (a and b is the res) I wrote 1680x1050 and then it was fixed but now I am experiencing this problem Your system is currently running without video hardware acceleration, you may experience poor performance and high CPU usage.

Your system is currently running without any video drivers including the ones which should install automatically from the kernel. Can you please give us more information about the "fix" you did in the terminal, because that may be part of the problem. I think you should remove that "fix" if you want your system to work properly.

Usually, if the Nvidia driver is installed and the resolution is not correct, we recommend the fix in this post [SOLVED] NVIDIA driver failing sometimes on boot ("no hardware acceleration").

[FilthySins]

Thanks for all the help guys! Someone here solved it but I forgot to edit.