Mint Drivers ? Which ones ??

[thin maple]

Which sound / graphic driver do i choose, and how do i choose them ?

I have tried installing nvidias proprietary drivers through Driver Manager with nooo luck. Setting my screen to 144hz brought lot of flickering and 60hz is just super choppy. It bleeds like when you have no vertical sync on..Its very hard to look at.

I don't know how to fix the drivers, starting with sound and video.

I went on to nvidias website to download some linux drivers for my gtx 1650 and now i am installing them(i think, i might be dumb with it). They are the latest drivers >.<

[wicked oasis]

the latest one in driver manager should work fine

sound drivers are generally bundled in the kernel

do not use the the nvidia driver installer you downloaded, it will install the same driver but may cause issues as mint is designed to install through the manager

are you trying to use sound through hdmi on your gpu?

[wicked oasis]

also that is a .run file which are ran in mint by right clicking and selecting allow running as an executable, and then executing it (dont do it on the installer though, just telling you thats the case for .run/.sh/.bundle and other script files)

can you post the output of inxi -Gx in the terminal?

[thin maple]

Sorry. I was offline and my phone is set to silent...

[wicked oasis]

all good

[thin maple]

I have managed to get MOK key working, thingy, i dont even know what to truly call it since i am very new at this.

So right now drivers seem to work. I was able to set 144hz and it's all just...so smooth

[wicked oasis]

oh you had secure boot enabled lol

[thin maple]

I still haven't figured out the audio but uhhhh video seems solid now

[wicked oasis]

disable secure boot completely it should solve your issues

[thin maple]

yes yes. its very on, except i cannot f***ing find it in bios. like i cannot find it to disable it, so i will work with it On

[wicked oasis]

what kind of motherboard do you have

on some you have to set it to other os

[thin maple]

if i keep it on, will there be a way(like with the gpu drivers) to activate and make use of audio ??

b450 tomahawk max 2 is my mobo ❤️

[wicked oasis]

ill find it

[thin maple]

i have tried, i could not find one single option that said SecureBoot 😐

i have to brb in 5minutes. real life calling

[wicked oasis]

alright

i found the bios option

go to settings > advanced > windows os configuration and then theres a secure boot option in the bios @thin maple

[thin maple]

Okay

So if i disable that, will there be any issues with windows ? cause i dual boot with win10, i got a fresh install done after i messed it up with the linux mint install

[wicked oasis]

i think you should be fine disabling it

[thin maple]

iiiii am omw

[wicked oasis]

if not you can just reenable it ig lol

[thin maple]

true !!

i forget that is always an option

No secure boot option for me here 😞

[wicked oasis]

okay that is really strange

secure boot shouldnt be enabled under legacy bios mode

[thin maple]

I know. I remember seeing secure boot option a few years back when i built this, when i installed and reinstalled win8 and 10 and ...

Now its just gone

[wicked oasis]

everywhere i found online it shows as the setting having secure boot below it when set to uefi

[thin maple]

Any workaround for having secure boot on, for linux drivers like sound ?

[wicked oasis]

csm should disable it

[thin maple]

Interesting

[wicked oasis]

youre better of digging around in the bios more

[thin maple]

Well i can switch to uefi and see ??

But idk if win will boot then

[wicked oasis]

yeah

[wicked oasis]

just switch it back

if if doesnt boot

[thin maple]

Eurika

[wicked oasis]

switch that option from csm to uefi and disable secure boot

[thin maple]

Like this ??

[wicked oasis]

shows disabled

hmm

[thin maple]

No i turned it off myself

[wicked oasis]

ohh alright

[thin maple]

I ask : do i turn off like this here ?

To set on disabled

[wicked oasis]

should be fine if you leave it

[thin maple]

It was on when i entered the sub menu

[wicked oasis]

just save and exit now and test if windows and linux are working

[thin maple]

Ok lets see with it off ! Imma try and boot into win first, and then into mint

Yes sir o7

They both work just fine. Ive just logged in to my mint now

[wicked oasis]

great

[thin maple]

I wanna test the sound

[wicked oasis]

is sound working now in mint?

[thin maple]

Nope

[wicked oasis]

weird

try to set the other option below secure boot to disabled

[thin maple]

I can see more options in input and output, like 5.1 7.1 surround, but uh they dont seem to work for me

Standard thingy ? It has 2 options that : standard and custom

[wicked oasis]

ohh

i thought you said it had a disable option

[thin maple]

Nope, just the top one had disabled option

[wicked oasis]

leave it like this then

go back to linux

[thin maple]

Let me use the sudo command and double check that secure boot is off in mint

[wicked oasis]

sure

[thin maple]

Im in mint rn, as we speak

[wicked oasis]

do inxi -A

[thin maple]

Ok, done

[wicked oasis]

post the output

[thin maple]

like this ?

[wicked oasis]

yeah

all looks good in there as far as i can tell

[thin maple]

I think ALSA is a sound driver or something

[wicked oasis]

no it like a framework for audio on linux

[thin maple]

im gonna try to unplug and plug back in my headset, maybe use the front io

[wicked oasis]

back green port should work

[thin maple]

nothing

[wicked oasis]

hmm

[thin maple]

isn't there a workaround ?

[wicked oasis]

honestly i dont know much about debugging audio issues, but clearly its not a secure boot problem

since we just disabled it

[thin maple]

mokutil --sb-state says SecureBoot disabled. So it cannot be that

[wicked oasis]

yeah

[thin maple]

https://linuxhint.com/fix-no-sound-linux-mint/
is this any good ? can you take a quick peek ?

[wicked oasis]

no because it is for pulseaudio

linux mint uses pipewire now in the latest version

[thin maple]

noted

[wicked oasis]

i read the whole tutorial and actually you can try but dont install the pulseaudio zeroconf thing

[thin maple]

nahh i won't try that. i can look up and try a bunch of other things, for sure

Could i play the audio through hdmi ? like connect my headset to the monitor ? Is that doable ?

WAIT

It works. I connected it through my monitor and surprise surprise

"Front..left"
"Front ....right"

Okay this is doable for me. I can switch from my mobo jack in the back to the monitor when i boot into mint.

I can work with this for now !

Small update : Front panel jack also works, the one next to my power button.

It's just the jack in the back of my mobo that doesn't want to get recognized or something

No, this is fixed !! Sound works perfectly 🍾 🍾

@wicked oasis Thank you !!!!!!!!!!

[wicked oasis]

lol nice

weird stuff

[thin maple]

Can confirm that mic works too 🍾

Stupid motherboard

[desert karma]

yeah the program "pulseaudio volume control" is good to manage soundcards (even though latest mint runs on Pipewire) pavucontrol: configuration tab.

In your case you have two soundcards, one built-into the nvidia graphics card, and the other built onto the motherboard (Family 17H)

[thin maple]

I will write that down but im honestly afraid of trying it

[desert karma]

it's just a volume mixer.

take screenshots for your own references and save them somewhere safe

(of each tab in it) then if u wanna play around u may

[desert karma]

your rear LINE OUT jack (usually 3.5 mm green) may be muted in alsamixer.

• open terminal, type alsamixer

• maximize the window so you see full view

• press F6 to pick sound device

• press F3 to filter by output only (playback)

look for a column marked line out or line, if it has an m in it, arrow to it and press m to unmute.

read "Item" description for each column because they're highly abbreviated.

pic is just a sample, with key things to look for highlighted with red.

(not counting the actual mic boost column)

[thin maple]

i will as soon as i boot back into mint. i loaded up windows to play some pubg 😄

[desert karma]

i mean if ur front line-out/HP jack works and that's all u care, then no matter. But I thought I'd throw that tip above in

[thin maple]

i think it was my extender dongle thingy, because my headset has a short cable. i bought a 2m cable looong time ago and ive been using is since. maybe that was the problem

but yeah i have yet to figure out why the jack in the back on the pc doesnt wanna work.

hdmi and front panel audio work like a charm

wine works like a charm, fruity loops studio works like a charm, wrath of the lich king works like a charm, like i honestly could not care less for the back port
i will test and let u know !

[desert karma]

my guess is the 3.5 mm jacks on back belong to the onboard sound (your AMD Family 17h chip) and it may be muted

as I detailed.

[thin maple]

noted

i did get into alsa mixer by mistake, as i saw in a forum post, and i did set some sliders to 100 but idk

some were at 0, i did not even touch them

[desert karma]

btw, mic and mic boost on the PLAYBACK filter dont really do much unless u have feedback (loopback) turned on. The CAPTURE (input) filter is where they take effect in streaming or recording applications

[thin maple]

ok

brb rq

i set headphone to 100 and the moment i reload it, it goes back to 0

hdmi and front port have headphone set to 100 in here, in alsa 😦

[desert karma]

have a sharp look at the second and last green column

and relate to what i wrote

[thin maple]

got it. it's working through the back port now

2meter extender dongle, whatever it's called, works too
im happy

[desert karma]

it's called a stereo 3.5mm extension cord

[thin maple]

gotta write that down

I swear, i am not dumb !

[desert karma]

mint's sound control settings and/or pavucontrol can and do override these sometimes, but ALSA is the foundation layer.

[thin maple]

i think i saw that word in a forum post, pavucontrol

it's on my ✅ list

[desert karma]

it's this

[thin maple]

yup

[desert karma]

mint sound settings is a re-skin of it, minus a few features

like the configuration tab

and latency tweaks

[thin maple]

i get lost with all the names. its so many new words at the same time 😅 i literally take notes

i would very much like to see that working before i get it done on my pc, so i will rely on yt videos for it