vortexal @ vortexal @sopuli.xyz

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I tried using Synaptic but it's only listing the current version so I guess I can't use that.

As for the system backup, it's a few days old but I don't think I did anything with it that I couldn't replace. I just mostly don't want to because, assuming that Brave is the only thing that broke, Firefox works fine still. If I can't get Brave or another Chromium browser to work, I can just use Firefox for the time being and hope the issue gets fixed later. Although, I'd need to know how to set up and use multiple Firefox profiles. which I used to know how to do on Windows but I was never able to find out how to do this on Linux.

I have heard of that browser before but I've never used it. I might try it out.

I don't really use it for the privacy stuff, I only used it because it performs better than Microsoft Edge (which yes, there is a Linux version of Edge).

I don't know if the link you gave is relevant to my issue because it seems to be for reverting Mint system updates while I'm just trying to revert a library update.

Also, how would it cause problems if the previous version worked fine?

I already have Firefox installed. I use both because some websites work better on Brave while some work better on Firefox.

I don't watch very many movies and this might be a controversial answer but the Hunger Games (at least the first movie, I've only seen the first one). It actually took me a whole month to watch it because the first time I tried to watch it, I fell asleep about 5 minutes in and I had to build up the mental fortitude to actually finish watching it. And it took me a total of three sittings to watch because I didn't have any connection to the story or the characters at all. I think I also remember the second half of the movie being actually good (not great, just good) but nothing really notable happens in the first half.

I think if they gave less time to the back story of the characters and focused more on the hunger games portion, it might have been fine.

Cassette tapes are also sort of coming back. There are modern ones are both USB compatible and compatible with old cassette players. They exist mostly for the market of people who own old cars that don't have modern radios.

Oh ok, but on top of the fact that I can't run that game, I don't really need help anymore. I've already determined that I'm pretty sure that my GPU is having hardware problems.

Ok, I tried that but is it just supposed to display a triangle? It also didn't have a GUI, is that only in the MacOS version of the app or am I supposed to run the .py file? If I'm to run the .py file, that is something I don't know how to do.

Unigine-heaven was available by itself and it worked but I've never benchmark tested anything before. The settings I used was low graphics, full screened to the custom resolution of 1360x768 (the resolution of the monitor I use) and everything else was disabled. The frame rate ranged from 12 to 26 (or at least somewhere around that), does that seem good for an AMD Radeon R2 Graphics?

Also that command returns this: `WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

libdrm-radeon1/jammy-updates,now 2.4.113-2~ubuntu0.22.04.1 amd64 [installed] xserver-xorg-video-radeon/jammy-updates,now 1:19.1.0-2ubuntu1 amd64 [installed] `

Ok that worked, as it turns out, the problem was that I've never used a .run file before and, at least from what I can tell, .run files are similar to .sh files.

Anyways, I've never really done benchmark tests before but I did play around with it a little. The settings I used was low graphics, full screened to the custom resolution of 1360x768 (the resolution of the monitor I use) and everything else was disabled. The frame rate ranged from 12 to 26 (or at least somewhere around that), does that seem good for an AMD Radeon R2 Graphics?

I'll have to tell you later, I'm trying to re-download it but it seems like my ISP is throttling my internet connection because Firefox is telling me that it's going to take an hour and a half to download, even though the first time only took a few minutes to download.

I just tried glxinfo but it didn't do anything and unless it's called something else, apt can't locate the package.

It is using the integrated GPU, it's a laptop that only has an integrated GPU. Also, lshw is having the same problem it had with my old computer, where it doesn't seem to list the right clock speed and just says it's running at 33Mhz. I know this is wrong because on my old computer, other software would state the clock speed was much higher. But another thing I'm noticing that's wrong is the GPU is listed as an R3 when the GPU is actually an R2, so unless they share drivers, It's possible that Mint (I'm using Linux Mint) installed the wrong drivers.

    
  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mullins [Radeon R3 Graphics] [1002:9850]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] [1002]
       physical id: 1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       version: 40
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
       configuration: depth=32 driver=radeon latency=0 resolution=1366,768
       resources: irq:38 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f07fffff ioport:4000(size=256) memory:f0d00000-f0d3ffff memory:c0000-dffff


  

When you say "built-in benchmark over Steam" what does that mean? If that is a common thing, I have a steam account but I've never really used it before as I get pretty much all of my games from itch.

I'm using Linux Mint and I'm just using the drivers that were preinstalled by the distro. If it's possible that Mint installed the wrong drivers somwhow, I wouldn't know where to look to get help with that.

I tried to download unigine but I can't seem to figure out how to download it. I'm using Linux Mint and the only download option seems to be a .run file which doesn't seem to be executable in Mint. I also don't know how to look through the repositories and when I tried to install "unigine-heaven" in apt, it told me it couldn't find it in the repositories. So unless it's called something else when you install it through apt, I don't know how to download it.

Also, I did look into Phoronix but it only mentions that it benchmarks CPUs and not GPUs.

Do they make laptops that have two GPUs or are you using an external GPU?

Do you know what the browser test is called or how to run it?

I didn't run glxgears and I did run glmark2 yesterday but I stopped it half way through. If I remember correctly, the frame rates from the test ranged from 80 to over 1000 fps depending on the test but I have no idea if that's good for the GPU or bad because I don't remember the results I got on my old computer. If someone knows GPUs well enough, my old GPU was an intel HD Graphics 3000 and the GPU in this computer is an AMD Radeon R2 Graphics.

Also, I looked into Phoronix but it looks like it just benchmarks CPUs.

Actually, the computer only has integrated graphics because it's a laptop.