Something strange happened as I was watching the latest Starship Activity from the SpaceX StarBase down in Boca Chica, Texas from the NASASPACEFLIGHT Folks via their YouTube Channel this morning:
I noticed an odd
“Wavy Gray Gravy Line” populating the lower portion of the YouTube Viewing Frame on their Web Page. I began to wonder if this artifact involved any issue with either my Dell Precision 4800 nVidia Work Station CAD Quality Video Card, the 32 Gigs of RAM on board or perhaps problems with any of the Quad CPUs installed inside of this otherwise perfectly reliable machine.
Then I realized that I’ve never had to Question or Test out the Very High Definition Graphics on my Dell Laptop Screen before, so I wasn’t certain about
"What Computer Graphics Bench Mark Test Suite Should I Use?". After that, I ‘Goggle-Eyed” around and then found, downloaded and installed
THIS Phoronix Test Suite for these purposes.
The is latest *.deb File for either the Debian and Ubuntu Linux OS:
https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=downloads
It follows that I installed the
Phoronix Test Suite after opening a Fresh Terminal and Typing in these Commands after adding in my SU (Super-User) password as needed of course,
sudo apt install gdebi-core <E>
sudo gdebi phoronix-test-suite_*.deb <E>
I then
clicked on the LM (Linux Mint) Icon in the Lower Left of the Laptop Screen and Typed in “PHOR”
(sans Quotes) into the Search String Line. The Program TAB for selecting
The Phoronix Test Suite appeared to the right and after clicking on it, a New Terminal Opened up and the Test Suite automatically ran its course in just a matter of minutes.
Once all of the Tests were complete, they listed out their very comprehensive results on the screen ...
showing nothing untoward had occurred. Then I opened up a Fresh Terminal and typed in:
sudo apt update <E>
When I went back to look at the minimized YouTube Screen, that mysterious
“Wavy Gray Gravy Line” artifact had disappeared completely. Problem Solved.
I'm not certain whether or not the recently updated Linux Kernel
(Valentine's Day 02/14/2022) needed some Additional Love via another Update Refreshment to sort this out. Nevertheless, having a
Decent Computer Bench Mark Test Suite that will work on Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Cross-Platform over to Windows OS Flavors as well ...is never a Bad Thing. :>)
That's That... And No Harm Done!