undone marlin
Hello,
I just installed Linux Mint XFCE, and at first everything worked like a charm.
As always, updated everything and restarted.
Now my Linux Mint XFCE is broken, all visuals are bugged with horizontal white strips and artifacts, the only thing working is the mouse arrow icon, which renders perfectly and i can move it around.
Specs:
Sempron 145 2.8ghz
Motherboard M4N68T-M LE V2
Integrated graphics
undone marlin
Please help 🙁
burnt patio
Hello,
I just installed Linux Mint XFCE, and at first everything worked like a c...
this looks like hardware problem for me.
can you try a different display cable?
undone marlin
this looks like hardware problem for me.
can you try a different display cable?
sure I can, I let you know what happens. BTW before updating, it was working great.
burnt patio
sure I can, I let you know what happens. BTW before updating, it was working gre...
if you have timeshift setup, you can try to rollback.
undone marlin
if you have timeshift setup, you can try to rollback.
well i just tried a whole different monitor and cable, and same, I didn't setup timeshift, i stilll can reinstall mint..
but after updating again i'll have the same issue right
burnt patio
well i just tried a whole different monitor and cable, and same, I didn't setup ...
can you try to boot from a live usb, no install, just see if it works?
undone marlin
can you try to boot from a live usb, no install, just see if it works?
you mean to boot on the live demo of mint before installation of the OS?
burnt patio
Yeah
burnt patio
hm that's weird. on your regular installation, when you start your pc, does a black screen saying "start linux mint" and some other appear. choose advanced options and then an older kernel.
undone marlin
yeah pressing shift i tried loading an older kernel, and happened the same
when the pc starts, mint logos are shown ok, but the problem is when i get into desktop
btw it worked great before updating everything, just like the live demo, something that updated went wrong, maybe the video drivers?
undone marlin
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Hello sir, sorry, you mean entering to the text mode? with the key E and setting it to RW setting nomodeset?
or what do you mean?, sorry for the delay I was afk
tardy geyser
I mean going to grub menu, selecting mint entry, presing e and adding nomodeset next to quiet splash
tardy geyser
Take a photo of the screen after you press e
undone marlin
i have 2 options: Mint and advanced options, I'll edit the first one, wait a min,I'll take it for you
I'm sorry for the blurry ones, I hope it's enough, sorryabout the setup, it's not mine.
It's in the linux line?
tardy geyser
2nd screenshot, 2nd line from bottom, type between words quiet and splash
Then press f10 to continue boot
undone marlin
just nomodeset?
tardy geyser
yes
undone marlin
wow, it worked, it booted and no artifacts at all.
the ia told me to do something similar but had more options and didn't worked, this seems to work like a charm
tardy geyser
Alright, then it's a driver issue.
Go to the terminal and type
mokutil --sb-state ; inxi -SMGxxx
and screenshot the result
undone marlin
ssorry had to send it like this
tardy geyser
Ok, wait a bit.
Well that's very old gpu that current driver is struggling with. We can make nomodeset permanent, but it'll limit what gpu can do, so see if that's worth it for you. Try doing things you normally do on this pc in this mode
undone marlin
Yes this pc is pretty old, I have mint on a ryzen and it works* more than great thats why I wanted to use at least the xcfe version on it, do you recommend me to try another distro maybe?
tardy geyser
I think it's not the distro, but gpu that's the problem. You can buy something very cheap like GT 710 and it won't be glitching. Otherwise, if it can do everything you need in the current state, we can set nomodeset permanently
undone marlin
let's do that, sounds ok
i mean i want it to open some excel files, and watching some youtube
tardy geyser
Well, can it do so right now?
undone marlin
if you tell me how i do it, i can do it right now.
tardy geyser
I meant open excel, watch youtube
undone marlin
let me see
@tardy geyser well it works, i don't think the performance is the best, before it had a windows 7 SO, and it wasn't great either, and i know the pc is pretty old, so i guess it's fine, I will try to look for a cheap gpu and a new memory.,
tardy geyser
Well nomodeset is basically safe mode for gpu, so it disables most of what gpu can do, besides basic output, but if that's enough, then we can use that.
Also, did the glitching happened before login screen or after?
undone marlin
the glitching starts irght when i enter to desktop, i don't use password to login on that pc
the thing is, if using another distro, would give a better performance, maybe that would be also a good option right?
tardy geyser
You can try, but I think it's gpu that's too old
undone marlin
or there are no drivers at all for this old setup
the thing using windows is that i can use privative drivers, idk if that would be worthy...
let me know how we do this perma, and then if i change my mind i'll lkook for another distro or soemthing., thanks a lot by the way
tardy geyser
But the fact that it worked ok before updates, gives me a hint that it might be either new kernel or mesa v25 driver that causes the bug. We can try to downgrade it back to v24 and lock it there. Just need to figure out how ))
undone marlin
yes before i updated it worked like a charm
I can just reinstall, i mean i have the usb
tardy geyser
Can you run
dpkg -l | grep mesa
and photo the result?
undone marlin
sure
tardy geyser
Alright, next to check run
apt policy libegl-mesa0 libgl1-mesa-dri
tardy geyser
that's fine
Ok, let's try downgrading it to 24
sudo apt install libegl-mesa0=24.0.5-1ubuntu1 libgbm1=24.0.5-1ubuntu1 libgl1-mesa-dri=24.0.5-1ubuntu1 libglapi-mesa=24.0.5-1ubuntu1 libglx-mesa0=24.0.5-1ubuntu1 mesa-libgallium=24.0.5-1ubuntu1 mesa-va-drivers=24.0.5-1ubuntu1 mesa-vdpau-drivers=24.0.5-1ubuntu1 mesa-vulkan-drivers=24.0.5-1ubuntu1
undone marlin
i'll login with discord on that pc
tardy geyser
yeah, discord site also works
undone marlin
yeah i'm using it rn
E: No se encontró la versión «24.0.5-1ubuntu1» para «mesa-libgallium»
basically, version not found xxxx for xxxx
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias... Hecho
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
El paquete mesa-libgallium no está disponible, pero algún otro paquete hace referencia
a él. Esto puede significar que el paquete falta, está obsoleto o sólo se
encuentra disponible desde alguna otra fuente
Sin embargo, los siguientes paquetes lo reemplazan:
mesa-libgallium:i386
seems like the package is not available or something like that
tardy geyser
hold on
That won't work then
let's see....
Can you restart, go back to grub menu, press e on mint entry and try nouveau.noaccel=1 instead of nomodeset
undone marlin
yeah i can do that
tardy geyser
See if that boots ok
If it boots fine, go to the terminal and type
sudo xed /etc/default/grub
In the opened file, on the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line add nouveau.noaccel=1 next to splash or quiet.
Save the file and close the editor.
Then in the terminal type
sudo update-grub
it should boot normally after that
undone marlin
it booted with nouveau.noaccel=1
at original monitor res 1080
it's working a bit worse i think
tardy geyser
basically you can interchange nouveau.noaccel=1 and nomodeset, see which works better - rest of the instructions are the same
undone marlin
great! thanks a lot for your time, and your help! right to the point.
tardy geyser
You're welcome
undone marlin
I will try to upgrade this s** pc, so my grandpa can use it, i mean i gifted him an i5 which works amazing, but he is using it on his store, and it would be amazing for him to have this on his house
tardy geyser
If you can get an I5 with integrated graphics, that will sidestep old nvidia gpu problem
undone marlin
yes, If this keeps causing more problems i will just rip the disk and install it for him to have a second drive.
btw
before updating the SO i think it was working better, i mean in performance
would be a good idea to try to reinstall mint? or i just keep it like it's now
tardy geyser
Yes like I said these 2 parameters disable gpu acceleration so the performance will tank.
undone marlin
If i reinstall what thing i have to make sure to unmark, i assume it's mesa and gpu related stu'ff
tardy geyser
You can try installing it fresh again, then lock the mesa packages with
sudo apt hold libegl-mesa0 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libglapi-mesa libglx-mesa0 mesa-libgallium mesa-va-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers
so that they won't be updated, and update everything else - maybe that'll work too
undone marlin
i will give it a try, youtube is working pretty bad rn, i'll let you know how it ended
again thanks a lot
tardy geyser
ok
