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My two cents on the topic. Whenever I ran it, I always said yes to every prompt and never had any issues, whether that was my laptop, my previous laptop, hardware from 2005, or hardware from 2014. If you stuck with the defaults, then there is no way that I can think of that anything could have gone south. If you said yes where the default is no, I'd be willing to bet that nothing was affected whatsoever.

That's the case with software decoding, but using VA-API for video playback reduces the load by quite a bit. I haven't done any extensive testing or looked into the details of it, so I'm probably at least partially mistaken, but I think that battery life tests use video playback because it kind of provides a baseline for light computer usage and because it's the easiest way to get the screen to not be static for a long time. Again, I might be at least partially mistaken, so please correct me if I am.

Yeah… Very recent NVIDIA hardware crashes Nouveau, so… Still, it does work quite well for old NVIDIA hardware, especially that which is no longer supported by its creator.

Yup, GNOME Settings has that option under Sound.

What do you see in PulseAudio Volume Control under the “Input devices” tab (`sudo apt install pavucontrol` if missing)?

Well… Before we go nuclear and reinstall anything, could you take a photo of the error? Also, if you could, please elaborate upon your installation process, since that contains necessary information for proper troubleshooting.

So… I am running Windows XP SP3 in a virtual machine. It is a clean copy of Windows XP and it has a valid license key. I had another virtual machine running Windows XP, but I ended up replacing it in the process of troubleshooting issues with the installation process of WinNC (it's installed now). Given that Microsoft has disabled SHA-1 for their Windows Update service in June of this year, I can't automatically update Windows XP anymore. I went to the Update Catalog and downloaded some of the updates, but I was struck with this when I tried to run one: I have tried to look online for a solution, but the only real advice that I could find is that I shouldn't run these installers from a network share (my account is the only account on there, so it's the administrator account, which means that everything is already running with administrator privileges). Does anybody present have any idea as to what could be going on? Also, thank you in advance!

That's another issue then. What have you tried to make Counter Strike: Global Offensive full screen?

Ubuntu does not install the PRO drivers automatically in my experience, though I switched off of Ubuntu on my other laptop (long story, not really relevant) just before Cosmic Cuttlefish was released, so there is a non-zero chance that things may have changed. I'd really like to see what results @GCandy77 gets with a Groovy Gorilla LiveUSB. Isn't ROCm another option?

Between me not being familiar with PopOS! all that much and these posts being very long (I kind of got lost in them ), all I understood is that AMDGPU comes with DKMS on PopOS! for whatever bizarre reason (I did not need DKMS for AMDGPU in the past three years that I was using my AMD laptop, which I used with several Ubuntu releases, Arch, and Gentoo) and that disabling it solved your issue, at least kind of. Could you try regular Ubuntu Groovy (the latest release) to check if everything is all right with it, or if the issue is present outside of PopOS! ?

LibreOffice Draw is another good option.

I avoid desktop icons like the plague, so I can't help you with that specifically, but simply adding applications to favorites (the sidebar to the left) should cover your needs just fine.

I was using Focal and upgraded to Groovy as soon as it was released. I personally like using the latest release, but Focal should be good enough for most of your needs.

Given that you have a GCN 2.0 GPU, it should never have used the `radeon` driver, which is intended for GCN 1.0 GPUs, though those are supported by AMDGPU as well, and older, predominantly TeraScale GPUs, which means that something had glitched out. Although, as long as you're back in business, it's fine, at least for now, though it's unlikely that the same issue will occur again. Have a nice day!

I've actually been in this kind of situation once before. I had, due to circumstances, ended up powering off before an Ubuntu upgrade was complete. GNOME didn't like that. Thankfully, as all of the packages had already been downloaded, all I had to do is run `sudo dpkg --configure` from a virtual terminal, that is an emulated teletype (TTY — teletype), and I was good to go. I can't say for certain whether that will help you, but it's not unlikely that it might. Good luck and have a nice day!

Well… If you like it and don't have a need for the most up-to-date packages (most people call them “bleeding-edge packages” though), like those on a rolling-release distribution, then you can just stick with Groovy. If you need some up-to-date package, but have no need for all of them being so, then a PPA or a Debian repository (WineHQ is an example of a non-PPA Debian/Ubuntu repository) should cover you.

I don't get this on Ubuntu Groovy, which is the base for your version of PopOS, so it might be PopOS specific. I'm sorry that I can't really help.

Damn… That must be worse than even my previous laptop, which had an AMD dual-core Stoney Ridge APU clocked at 2.9GHz with a 3.5GHz boost mother's AMD dual-core laptop from 2014 clocked at 1.35GHz (that thing is so slow, especially on Windows 10, though her installation is corrupt to be fair, but she refuses to reinstall Windows no matter what, and it's been like that for two years now, …).

Sigh

This makes me wonder what the Linux support will be like.

QEMU is able to emulate the processor, meaning that it would, in this instance, convert AMD64 processor instructions to PowerPC processor instructions. This is slow, doubly so on old hardware, so it is much more advisable to run a virtual machine on a more modern device, preferably one the processor of which has virtualisation extensions which allow for even better performance of virtual machines. Oh, and you can't expect to run any sort of virtual machine without more that 256MB of RAM in your iBook G3, and even then anything more that Windows 3.11 is probably a stretch.

All right, they seem to be detected at least. Try searching for their device files, as those should show up in the kernel log (the file paths following “Kernel: ” in the device list). Edit So, after doing some research online, though it was not comprehensive, I saw that one possible solution would be to disable ACPI (third comment). I'd call that a last resort, as ACPI is fairly important. Before that though, we'll just have to see what errors the kernel throws, if any.

What do you see in PulseAudio Volume Control under the “Input devices” tab (`sudo apt install pavucontrol` if missing)?

I forgot that you need to prepend `sudo` to `libinput list-devices` if you're not in the `input` group . You need to use code block when pasting something from the terminal. `sudo dmesg --human` uses the same navigation as Vim does, so you need to press Shift+G to get to the bottom of the log. If you see your internal keyboard listed by libinput, then you can search for it in dmesg by typing Slash (Shift+7 on my Bosnian keyboard), typing the query, and pressing Enter. You move between matches by pressing N for the next match and Shift+N for the previous one. For example, this is what I get when searching for my touchpad as listed in `sudo libinput list-devices` (I only copied the first part of the name as listed by libinput to increase the chances of getting a match): Edit Oh, I forgot to also paste what the “mouse” (I only have a touchpad and no mice, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) and touchpad are listed as on my laptop for comparison's sake: *** Device: DELL097A:00 04F3:30C4 Mouse Kernel: /dev/input/event8 Group: 7 Seat: seat0, default Capabilities: pointer Tap-to-click: n/a Tap-and-drag: n/a Tap drag lock: n/a Left-handed: disabled Nat.scrolling: disabled Middle emulation: n/a Calibration: n/a Scroll methods: *button Click methods: none Disable-w-typing: n/a Accel profiles: flat *adaptive Rotation: n/a Device: DELL097A:00 04F3:30C4 Touchpad Kernel: /dev/input/event11 Group: 7 Seat: seat0, default Size: 104x78mm Capabilities: pointer gesture Tap-to-click: disabled Tap-and-drag: enabled Tap drag lock: disabled Left-handed: disabled Nat.scrolling: disabled Middle emulation: disabled Calibration: n/a Scroll methods: *two-finger edge Click methods: *button-areas clickfinger Disable-w-typing: enabled Accel profiles: flat *adaptive Rotation: n/a ***

I don't actually know where the temperature data can be found , but I do know that `sensors` cannot read my NVIDIA dGPU's temperature, so it might be harder to set the NVIDIA GPU up than the AMD CPU. I'm going to bed now (it's four in the morning, I'm way overdue for sleep), but I will look into it later today if nobody else provides any information.