[04:17] <JDizzle> Hi, I just installed Xubu and am having some screen tearing issues. I'm not super savvy with Linux, more of a beginner.
[04:18] <JDizzle> It's version 18.04 and my GPU is an AMD R9 290.
[04:18] <JDizzle> Would anyone mind assisting me with this?
[04:20] <well_laid_lawn> !amd
[04:20] <ubottu> Open drivers for AMD cards: amdgpu (cards >= GCN1.2 aka GCN 3rd gen), radeon (older cards). AMD has a closed driver named amdgpu-pro that supports the same cards as amdgpu, but it is generally unnecessary. FGLRX is not supported in any current Ubuntu version or in this channel. For info on GCN levels, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units
[04:20] <well_laid_lawn> try turning the compositing off as a first test
[04:21] <JDizzle> How do I go about doing that?
[04:22] <well_laid_lawn> I'm not at my xubuntu box atm but it should be in window manager settings iirc
[04:23] <JDizzle> well_laid_lawn thanks, I'll start poking around and see if I can locate it and get back to you in a minute.
[04:24] <JDizzle> well_laid_lawn OK, found and disabled the compositor and it seems to have fixed it. Thanks!
[04:25] <well_laid_lawn> cheers
[04:26] <well_laid_lawn> JDizzle:  this might be of interest https://forum.manjaro.org/t/auto-toggle-xfce-compositor/107115
[04:26] <JDizzle> well_laid_lawn what was that "!amd" command you used a minute ago? I get that it was a bot summon but couldn't really make sense of the text the bot spat out.
[04:27] <JDizzle> well_laid_lawn hmm well now it seems to have returned. Still not as bad as before though
[04:28] <JDizzle> I got a tarball of the driver from the AMD website but have no idea where to extract it to, or if that matters.
[04:30] <well_laid_lawn> I'd make a directory in your /home and move the tarball there and extract it
[04:30] <well_laid_lawn> it probabl has an INSTALL.sh script or similar
[04:30] <well_laid_lawn> check for a README
[04:31] <JDizzle> well_laid_lawn Found a guide online, doing exactly that
[04:31] <JDizzle> Gonna see if installing the drivers fixes it
[04:31] <well_laid_lawn> luck
[04:32] <JDizzle> well_laid_lawn thx I'll report back in a bit
[17:08] <Noboru55> Hello, i have a question about cpu, here when i open the browser or play zsnes, anything i do the 2 cpu go to almost 100% usage, but uses a little ram, is it normal ?
[17:09] <Noboru55> of course its an old laptop so, i guess its ok.. not sure
[17:09] <Noboru55> if someone knows please tell me, thanks
[17:11] <diogenes_> Noboru55, run: lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A3 and pastebin, also what browser.
[17:11] <Noboru55> any one, chromium and chrome.. but firefox is worse
[17:12] <Noboru55> in windows 10 i can force that virtual memory to usage and it makes cpu  almos always low
[17:12] <Noboru55> here it works in wrong way, but xubuntu is still fast quick lightweight.. do not know the word
[17:13] <Noboru55> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:22b1] (rev 35)
[17:13] <Noboru55> 	Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller [1297:2053]
[17:13] <Noboru55> 	Kernel driver in use: i915
[17:13] <Noboru55> 	Kernel modules: i915
[17:14] <Noboru55> it was just a question, to know if its ok to the cpu usage high when start some application or when in some game..
[17:15] <Noboru55> maybe its beacuse its an weak laptop i guess
[17:15] <diogenes_> Noboru55, you've got a weak graphics.
[17:15] <Noboru55> intel 400
[17:17] <Noboru55> right..  everything here is weak ^^
[17:17] <diogenes_> you could try and tweak ff settings to see if you get any improvements.
[17:17] <Noboru55> like disable compositor?
[17:18] <Noboru55> no, i like the transparency but i understood its happing because the video graphics ^^
[17:18] <Noboru55> nothing to do, the xubuntu is still nice ! like it
[17:18] <Noboru55> diogenes_ thank for your time, when have time look the pvt
[17:19] <diogenes_> Noboru55, i mean to try and enable some hw acceleration in ff.
[17:20] <Noboru55> mmm. how can i do it?
[17:20] <Noboru55> the hw acceleration
[17:20] <diogenes_> Noboru55, in ff type: about:support
[17:21] <diogenes_> scroll down and see what it says about composition and hw accel.
[17:23] <Noboru55> already did
[17:23] <Noboru55> you were right,
[17:23] <Noboru55> the cpu gets close to 70% only playing game, listening song, chromium and firefox with hw acelleration, and byzans-record
[17:24] <Noboru55> but i disable the compositor
[17:24] <Noboru55> diogenes_ anyway i preffer to use chromium... but the compositor is the reason for the cpu usage, in windows i disable all graphics effects
[17:24] <Noboru55> i must know it
[17:25] <Noboru55> diogenes_ thank u again... living and learning
[17:25] <diogenes_> you're welcome
[20:22] <merliner> Greetings. I come to xubuntu from a background with Debian server. Prior desktops were OS/2 and Win7. Moving now to a new desktop I selected the ubuntu line due to familiarity with and respect for the Debian packaging system and dependable stability. Now I'm confronting snap packaging as some kind of parallel package manager, which is a bit disorienting, but makes sense for desktop applications. My question is "Is snap well accepted in the user/
[20:22] <merliner> developer/support community, or is there some reasoned resistance to it?"
[20:44] <tomreyn> merliner: pros and cons of snaps compared to apt / deb have been a matter of discussion in #ubuntu-discuss before, you could probably get opinions there.
[20:45] <merliner> thanks
[23:17] <danomite> I'm having trouble getting good graphics performance out of my Xubuntu VM (guest) on my Windows 10 Hyper-V (host). Is there anything I could check or an article you could refer me to?