[07:34] <lapion> Hello
[07:36] <lapion> is there any possibility to get the power statistics app back on ubuntu-mate 1.20.1 ?
[08:43] <schyken> Just popped in from the Welcome Center. I'm rather impressed that this has been set up so conveniently! Very impressive. :D
[16:20] <lapion> is there any possibility to get the power statistics app back on ubuntu-mate 18.04 with mate 1.20.1 ?
[16:32] <vkareh> lapion: what do you mean? The Power Statistics app is there, part of mate-power-manager
[16:33] <vkareh> lapion: try running `mate-power-statistics`
[16:35] <dreamscape> Hi everyone, is there a driver i can use on 18.04 LTS for my 5450?
[16:41] <vkareh> dreamscape: if by 5450 you mean the Radeon graphics card, if the ones provided in the repos don't work for you (radeon, fglrx? haven't done ATI in a while) you might need to download directly from their website: https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/linux
[16:42] <vkareh> then run `aticonfig` I think...
[16:42] <dreamscape> Hmmm, I'm on a later version though won't that cause problems? And yes sorry I mean the Radeon card.
[16:43] <vkareh> dreamscape: I honestly don't know... I haven't had a Radeon card in a while :/
[16:43] <dreamscape> I play OpenGL Doom and in windows this card is like butter, on ubuntu its choppy and has microstutters. I hate windows so really want to try and get it working the same on here.
[16:44] <dreamscape> Are Radeon cards less supported than Nvidia in Ubuntu?
[16:46] <vkareh> no, I think graphics support is the other way around: Radeon has better support for Linux than Nvidia does (AMD puts out open source drivers, AFAIK, whereas Nvidia does not). As for me I only really have laptops, so those typically come with either Nvidia or Intel
[16:50] <dreamscape> Ahhh ok well any idea why i get micro stutters vs windows? It's so lovely and smooth in windows but Ubuntu its 60fps but it stutters its not as smooth.
[16:58] <vkareh> dreamscape: no idea :( try running `inxi -G` to see what drivers you're currently using. You can also try running `ubuntu-drivers devices` and see what drivers are available
[16:59] <dreamscape> https://pastebin.com/HjJWpj2S
[16:59] <dreamscape> 'ubuntu-drivers devices' brings up nothing
[17:14] <vkareh> dreamscape: from that pastebin I see that you're using AMD Cedar as your OpenGL renderer, you should definitely use Mesa, which the amdgpu driver should have proper support for. So try installing "xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu". If that doesn't work, you might need to download the amdgpu driver from the AMD/ATI website unfortunately.
[17:16] <dreamscape> Thank you i will give it a go
[17:16] <dreamscape> xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu is already the newest version (18.0.1-1).
[17:16] <dreamscape> How do i switch to Mesa?
[17:16] <vkareh> ugh... :/
[17:17] <vkareh> I think I've reached the limit of my knowledge regarding graphic card drivers :(
[17:18] <vkareh> try installing `xserver-xorg-video-radeon` and see if that makes any difference?
[17:19] <vkareh> There's also `xserver-xorg-video-ati`, which I have no idea about either
[17:30] <dreamscape> Thanks i will try it
[17:30] <dreamscape> They are all the latest version apparently
[17:34] <vkareh> but which one it's using? try again with ubuntu-drivers, but run maybe `ubuntu-drivers autoinstall` or `ubuntu-drivers list` and see what happens? If they are all installed, there should be a way of telling it which one to use (that's what ubuntu-drivers does)
[17:35] <dreamscape> no output
[17:37] <vkareh> :(