Intel Onboard G41 Glitch VS Not Resume From Hibernate Radeon HD6450

Hi

I have a graphical glitch with my onboard Intel G41 graphics with the Total CPU Usage Line Chart Widget. The widget displays ghost data points which result in messy & not clean Line chart. I have reported bug under KDE from help menu. However…

…When running both monitors from Radeon HD6450, PC will not resume from hibernate. Running primary monitor from Intel G41 onboard & secondary monitor from Radeon HD6450, I can successfully resume from hibernate.

I guess should report Radeon GPU bug, but where & under what component? Bugzilla? KDE?
I appreciate this is all ancient tech & not sure which bug is easiest to squash. But hopefully being a decent Netizen. I have zero complaints with setup & hope to run into obsolescence.

Both ancient & probably a bad option. How about a Radeon R7 240? I’ve ordered one £50 from ebuyer. If that fails then next price point is £76 ex display.

So heres hoping :pray:.

You’re already there, as far as software support. It’s obsolete and unsupported. Doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t use it, but the chances of getting any bugs fixed for hardware that old is pretty slim.

Is this the Kcpuload widget, or something else? I don’t seem to be able to get mine to show any kind of graph. Changing “style” has no apparent effect. All I can get is one or two lines of text.

You’re lucky you are able to use 2 GPUs. My G41 is on a Biostar motherboard whose BIOS disallows using both discrete GPU and onboard GPU at the same time. My HD6450 is in a different PC with Q45 chipset, also with Eaglelake onboard GPU, with BIOS that also disallows use of onboard GPU when discrete GPU is installed. Those PCs both run TW (and Leap, and Debian) fine, but I never try to hibernate either one.

Its the default CPU Load widget. I have a Gigabyte G41M-COMBO main board. I am able to choose from onboard, PCI or PCIE for graphics initiation, then, yes, run both, or maybe all three?!? Glad other users of aged hardware out there. I have the Intel Core2 Extreme CPU X9650 @ 3.00GHz, so still got some leg room.

I guess had hibernation issues even with Windows (7). But kinda have to have it working to self certify as perfect Linux workstation. Very handy when needed. It used to work back in the day, & I found Mint did actually work a couple of years back. But Tumbleweed is technically excellent & I hooked. Gonna try a 2013 GPU then 2017, then modern prices. Intel is a choice for £130.00, but traditionally Radeon is the choice. Cheaper than pricing a new system.
There is always nVidia who seem to have more budget options. Hate how my equally ancient nouveau mirrors display, though that may not be the case anymore? I’ll probably dig out & try hibernation, as got some serious free time at mo’.

Personally, I’ve never seen a need for hibernation, most especially a desktop.

And even with my three laptops (2 running only TW, 1 dedicated to Win10), I never run hibernate … I either select Sleep (cause I’ll be back to it in an hour or so), or Shutdown (won’t look at it for hours).

Much the same with the two desktops - won’t be used for hours? Power off.

Fair enough, makes sense. But invaluable if need down tools halfway through something complex. I am a perfectionist though.

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Take my word - I understand perfectly. (30+ years software/network engineer, published author of a Linux book and some programming books). Now retired, so I always take the easy street when problems arise :+1:

If Windows can do it? Linux has to break par.

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For me, Win didn’t do some things that Linux can do, so left MS behind :+1:

Yeah buddy, but does it hibernate?

I recommend reading this post at reddit … personally, I am in full agreement with the reasons to not hibernate (unless maybe you’re a bear).:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/r4a4so/interesting_fedora_does_not_support_hibernation/

Fair’s fair, nothing I can add to this!

Timewarping 10yrs into future & still get rice confetti distort on Radeon resume from hibernate. I’ll be grateful for what I got, as I’ll hedge a bet the commonality is my mobo & not the graphics card. Could try Intel, but got a 2022 Radeon on the way & will probably just return as cannot cancel order. [myswtest] thanks for your insights.

A passively cooled £50 Nvidia works out the box. Fedora deciding to eliminate hibernate is not the Linuxverse. When I say hibernate I infer sleep, as neither worked.