My system is pretty old, I haven't had the funds to upgrade it or do a new build in a long time, and for a little over a year, I've been dealing with crashes: on Windows, whatever game or program I was running would freeze up, then the screen would go black, then my normal desktop environment would appear, except that whatever program I was previously running would be totally blank, and windows would greet me with a little dialog box saying "There was a graphics timeout, and we've restarted the graphics drivers." This whole process would take anywhere from 15 to 45 seconds, from the first freeze to when I had control again and could re-start the central effect program.
Now, after my switch to Mint, things are mostly running better, but that hasn't stopped the crashes, although, now they appear quite different. I get a freeze, and then various stages of frozen decay, before I'm greeted by a login screen. It takes the same amount of time, it's just that the results are different.
Now, I'm not asking you guys to solve this or anything, I know that the only real way to solve the problem is to get a new graphics card. I've already tried updating the drivers, rolling back the drivers, playing on minimal settings, and all of those options on both Windows and Mint. But I couldn't afford anything in November 2019, I certainly can't afford a new graphics card in the middle of the current micro chip shortage, so it's just an inconvenience I'm going to keep living with, unfortunately.
However, my question is this: is there a way to quickly restart the Mint graphics drivers (preferably in some way that I could set up and execute with a key bind)? When the system logs me out, it also closes all of the programs I had up previously, which is a bit more disruptive than the solution Windows was (purportedly) implementing to fix the freeze. If there isn't anything like that, then that's fine, I just thought I would ask.
EDIT: For those finding this in the future, there isn't a way to really do this in Mint.
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System:
Kernel: 5.4.0-72-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: AB350 Pro4 serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: P5.00 date: 07/05/2018
CPU:
Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen
rev: 1 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 76653
Speed: 1374 MHz min/max: 1550/3200 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 1374 2: 1375 3: 1374 4: 1375 5: 1375 6: 1375 7: 1375 8: 1373 9: 1374
10: 1375 11: 1375 12: 1375
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vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 26:00.0
chip ID: 1002:67df
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa tty: N/A
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5.4.0-72-generic LLVM 11.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.2 - kisak-mesa PPA direct render: Yes
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vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 26:00.1
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vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 25:00.0
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Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: zsh
v: 5.8 running in: terminator inxi: 3.0.38
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