macbook pro 2011 graphics card issue fix linux

I took it to the Apple Store at the Polaris Mall here in Columbus expected to have it shipped off to Apple to get a new logic board for $360 or so. I looked online and there was a bevy of information on the logic board graphics issues. The disk Utilities said the hard drive didn't have a problem, I ran the hardware test that comes on the CD that came with my computer back in 2011 and it said there were no problems, but it just kept happening more and more. I'd have to hard reboot numerous (up to 12 times) times to get it to work right. Granted it worked most of the time like normal but it would go into spurts of not working right for a day. The computer would get super hot on the bottom. I would get errors that popped up saying there was a graphics error. Sometimes there would be lines on the screen. The screen was locking up, the system would start to reboot and then lock up or continue to reboot over and over again. You can see the graphics card in use.I have a 15' 2011 MacBook Pro, and about a month ago it started having all sorts of graphics problems. Another way to find out the graphics card would be to go in System Settings->Details->Graphics. An indicator that the graphics card in use is Intel.

Run the command below in the terminal to know what video card is used for the backlight/brightness: ls /sys/class/backlight/Īs you can see, the output for me is dell_backlight and intel_backlight. Step 1: Find video/graphics card in Ubuntu and Linux Mint

This article was originally written for an older version of Ubuntu but it should still be applicable to newer Ubuntu versions and the distributions based on Ubuntu. Let’s first find out what graphics/video card to do you have. The solution, that worked for me, is for Intel one. One relates to Nvidia graphics card and other relates to Intel graphics card. It turns out, there are two bugs related to brightness issue in Ubuntu. Brightness was at the maximum and my attempts to lower it went in vain. On my Dell Inspiron, using the function key to change the brightness did not yield any results. In this quick post, we’ll see how to fix brightness function key not working in Ubuntu. We saw how to fix no sound issue and no network issue in Ubuntu in other posts. Some of the most prominent issues with Ubuntu are brightness control, wifi and sound.

Macbook pro 2011 graphics card issue fix linux