Hello all, hoping to get some opinions to consider as I try to settle on a hardware upgrade.
Much to my amazement, I was able to install Virtual Box and install LMDE6 on it with guest editions. There were a few glitches getting the clipboard and shared files set up, but overall it wasn't to difficult for me.
However, in order to get it to run in full screen I have to switch the graphics controller to VBoxVGA. This generates an "invalid setting detected" message. The graphics memory is set to 128 M, as much as there is. It does go to full screen, but it seems to me like it's "straining" to get it done.
The graphics card I'm using is one I pulled from an HP Officedesk Pro with a dead motherboard. Which I bought refurbished. As such, I don't know how old the thing is. My guess is it's old enough to have problems running both the host and guest system output. Hence the glitches I'm encountering.
I've read about some problems running NVidea and / or other cards drivers and I'd prefer to avoid buying a new graphics card only to wind up having to jump through hoops getting it up and keeping it up with updates.
While I know I can shop and compare myself, I also know that I'm not well versed enough in the subject to comprehend what I'm comparing. So I'm asking you kind folks to chime in with some ideas for me to peruse. Oh, running Mint Cinnamon 21.2.
Here's a listing of pertinent current system set up.
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: MS-7C91 v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: MAG B550 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI (MS-7C91) v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 2.20 date: 08/30/2022
CPU:
Info: 16-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 rev: 2 cache:
L1: 1024 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 64 MiB
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Lexa PRO [Radeon 540/540X/550/550X / RX 540X/550/550X] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DVI-D-1 bus-ID: 2b:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:699f
Device-2: Logitech C922 Pro Stream Webcam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
bus-ID: 3-3:3 chip-ID: 046d:085c
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-0 mapped: HDMI-A-1 model: Samsung LF27T35 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 82
diag: 686mm (27")
OpenGL:
renderer: AMD Radeon RX 550 / 550 Series (polaris12 LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.42 5.15.0-86-generic)
v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 direct render: Yes
Much to my amazement, I was able to install Virtual Box and install LMDE6 on it with guest editions. There were a few glitches getting the clipboard and shared files set up, but overall it wasn't to difficult for me.
However, in order to get it to run in full screen I have to switch the graphics controller to VBoxVGA. This generates an "invalid setting detected" message. The graphics memory is set to 128 M, as much as there is. It does go to full screen, but it seems to me like it's "straining" to get it done.
The graphics card I'm using is one I pulled from an HP Officedesk Pro with a dead motherboard. Which I bought refurbished. As such, I don't know how old the thing is. My guess is it's old enough to have problems running both the host and guest system output. Hence the glitches I'm encountering.
I've read about some problems running NVidea and / or other cards drivers and I'd prefer to avoid buying a new graphics card only to wind up having to jump through hoops getting it up and keeping it up with updates.
While I know I can shop and compare myself, I also know that I'm not well versed enough in the subject to comprehend what I'm comparing. So I'm asking you kind folks to chime in with some ideas for me to peruse. Oh, running Mint Cinnamon 21.2.
Here's a listing of pertinent current system set up.
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: MS-7C91 v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: MAG B550 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI (MS-7C91) v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 2.20 date: 08/30/2022
CPU:
Info: 16-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 rev: 2 cache:
L1: 1024 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 64 MiB
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Lexa PRO [Radeon 540/540X/550/550X / RX 540X/550/550X] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DVI-D-1 bus-ID: 2b:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:699f
Device-2: Logitech C922 Pro Stream Webcam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
bus-ID: 3-3:3 chip-ID: 046d:085c
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-0 mapped: HDMI-A-1 model: Samsung LF27T35 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 82
diag: 686mm (27")
OpenGL:
renderer: AMD Radeon RX 550 / 550 Series (polaris12 LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.42 5.15.0-86-generic)
v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 direct render: Yes
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