Unsolved Opens with distorted screen

[RickBuxton]

My older Dell Latitude laptop is limited to 32-bit software. Using Vivaldi 3.7.2218.58 (Stable channel) (32-bit) and Linux Mint 19 (32-bit) with Nvidia card (Nouveau driver - recommended proprietary driver does not work at all ), the program opens but the screen is completely distorted as cubes or blocks in no particular order as well as diagonally stretched areas. This issue only happens with Vivaldi. Naturally, I am unable to do anything but close it down.

I've re-installed Mint and Vivaldi with no success. I'd love to update to 64-bit, but cannot at this time $$$.

A friend using an older Dell (32-bit) desktop with Ubuntu 18.04 (32-bit) and Vivaldi 3.7.2218.58 (Stable channel) (32-bit) has reported no issues whatsoever.

Internet searches have provided no information pertaining to this particular issue or anything similar. What can I do to remedy?

[sgunhouse]

@RickBuxton There is a command line option that can be used to disable hardware acceleration, though I don't recall it precisely. It might fix this for you.

[mib2berlin]

@RickBuxton
Hi, the command line switch @sgunhouse mention is:

--disable-gpu

Cheers, mib

[RickBuxton]

@sgunhouse Thank you for the speedy reply. I've tried to find a command and failed miserably.

[RickBuxton]

@mib2berlin Thank you very much. I'll give it a whirl and see what happens. Wish me luck.

[RickBuxton]

@mib2berlin Drat! The dreaded "command not found" return. I'm trying to find more info to see if I'm missing some package or whatever. Thank you again.

[mib2berlin]

@RickBuxton
May you check the latest 32bit Vivaldi 3.8.

https://vivaldi.com/download/archive/?platform=linux

The command was not implemented at this time? I cant remember.

vivaldi --disable-gpu

https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#disable-gpu

Cheers, mib

[RickBuxton]

@mib2berlin Installed Vivaldi stable 3.8.2259.37-1_i386.deb.
It opened (GUI) resulting in a white screen and requester asking for keyring... then closed without a chance to read the entire message.

Tried opening again - nothing happened.

Opened from terminal with switch to disable GPU and got error message:

ERROR:gpu_init.cc(426) | passthrough is not supported GL is EGL

and a secondary message which I have not transcribed from the screen capture.

Running from the terminal without the GPU disable switch gave me this message:

$ /usr/bin/vivaldi
[2884:2884:0917/163219.016253:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(374)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[2851:2851:0917/163225.315863:ERROR:vivaldi_ui_web_contents_delegate.cc(42)] UI Process abnormally terminates with status 3 after running for 1.92809 seconds!
[2851:2851:0917/163225.451457:ERROR:vivaldi_ui_web_contents_delegate.cc(73)] Quiting Vivaldi

At this point I'm pretty sure I should just throw up my hands. Perhaps one day, Vivaldi could see fit to continue updating a 32-bit version, but I suspect dinosaurs like me and other 32-bit users are going to be left in the dust of 64-bit progress.

Thank you for taking the time and offering solutions. I wish it could have worked out.

[mib2berlin]

@RickBuxton
Hi, I guess you are right, the last desktop CPU is 20 years old.
Maybe you can get a core2duo system for 20-30 €, it should also be 20-30 times faster than your Pentium system.

Have a nice day, mib