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Post by oldman21 on Apr 11, 2021 22:25:35 GMT
Hello, New user here trying to breath some light in to a older laptop. I believe I have a graphics. No problem from the desktop but when using any browser the screen is not displaying correctly.
When I run lspxu I can see I have a Nvidia Geforce Go 6150.
I can see nothing but problems online and issues dating back a few years. I was trying to see if anyone could help me install a working driver ?.
Having to post this from a cell phone as the web and even chromium do not always display correctly and make it very hard to read things.
Thanks to anyone that can help.
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 11, 2021 22:45:51 GMT
Hello, New user here trying to breath some light in to a older laptop. I believe I have a graphics. No problem from the desktop but when using any browser the screen is not displaying correctly. When I run lspxu I can see I have a Nvidia Geforce Go 6150. I can see nothing but problems online and issues dating back a few years. I was trying to see if anyone could help me install a working driver ?. Having to post this from a cell phone as the web and even chromium do not always display correctly and make it very hard to read things. Thanks to anyone that can help. YES! I have some GPU on my athlon! If you want to use chromium, you have to disable the hardware acceleration. Otherwise all sorts of graphical glitches. Also, if you have problem with your mouse cursor disappearing, I know a fix for that.... Nvidia's latest proprietary driver that supports this GPU is nvidia-304. The last Bodhi/ubuntu that was packaged for was 4.5/16.04
You can theoretically make it work on bodhi 5, but requires patches to the driver. When I tried I had weird lines popping up on the screen, although it did seem to have better 3D performance, the lines were constant, even just sitting on a desktop. To use it on bodhi 6 would probably require using older kernel and applying same patches as for bodhi 5, but dunno that probably wouldnt even work.
But if you can deal with disabling hardware acceleration in modern browsers (no google stadia), the noveau driver does fairly well, and hardware h264 video decoding works! (If you can only get 360p in a browser, ask me for an idea!).
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Post by oldman21 on Apr 12, 2021 2:10:41 GMT
Thank you for your post and hints I will be for sure trying this tomorrow. I really hope this works as Bodhi has brought this old laptop back to life. It's perfect for the kids who are having to do remote learning right now (All webbased) so this laptop is perfect for this task.
I will report back :-)
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Post by oldman21 on Apr 12, 2021 22:07:28 GMT
Well I am a little stuck I can get in to the settings menu but it is near impossible to get in to system settings and disable to setting given that the screen in chrome is all over the place. I have been trying to find a setting or a switch I might be able to pass from the terminal but with out any luck. Do you know of a setting that can be made outside of chrome ?
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 12, 2021 23:50:43 GMT
hahahhaha yeah its a nightmare getting to that setting when the screen is all glitched. i kept having these weird traingular shapes and stuff over there. I just kept trying half blind til I got it right, but yeah you can probably edit the config file, lemee figure that out
edit: can't find it in .config/chromium/Default/Preferences like I expected
If you launch with
chromium --disable-gpu does it happen to work?
If not and you can't navigate the GUI, I'd play with other with command line options see if any of them make it work enough for you to get to settings, or perhaps as a workaround (add to shortcut).
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Post by oldman21 on Apr 14, 2021 1:32:02 GMT
WOW as soon as I added that switch it came up just perfect and and I was able to turn off the hardware acceleration :-) I was able to then login to my kids school accounts and have them doing there remote school work right away.
2 Other questions if I may, I created a .desktop file and then turned on desktop icons from the module/files but I still don't seem to have a icon on the desktop for the browser. Did I miss a step
Multi users, I can create another user from terminal but how are logins treated when you first start bodhi ? Is there a user login manager eg where you can click to login as a certain user ?
Thanks again for coming up with the NVIDIA workaround
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 14, 2021 2:23:53 GMT
2 Other questions if I may, I created a .desktop file and then turned on desktop icons from the module/files but I still don't seem to have a icon on the desktop for the browser. Did I miss a step Multi users, I can create another user from terminal but how are logins treated when you first start bodhi ? Is there a user login manager eg where you can click to login as a certain user ? If you created a .desktop file, if you want the shortcut on your desktop, put the .desktop file in ~/Desktop folder. If you want it in your applications menu put the .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications
However, if you want to put a shortcut to a browser on your desktop, there should already be a desktop file for it in /usr/share/applications you could just copy to your desktop. If you already enabled desktop icons, just copy any shortcut (desktop file) from /usr/share/applications to ~/Desktop.
Or, a way to do it without loading desktop icons would be to put an ibar gadget on your desktop, and add your browser to that without having to mess with files yourself.
Yes, there is a login manager, its called lightdm, and its what you see before you login, and when you logout, where you select your username and type your password. If you enabled autologin during installation, you can disable that if you always want login screen at startup, but in any case you'll see it when you logout.
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 14, 2021 4:14:09 GMT
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