cant run latency histogram

I do not use Debian, except on some industrial machines.
I use Mint Mate,
-and no i do not use it because it is similar to windows (someone here wrote that a while back),
-and no i do not use it because it looks better (been told several times on youtube) as i rarely see it - i have everything i use start at boot, so i never see the desktop,
-and no i will not use Debian as long as they do not fix the "repository self destruction",
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I use it for a very simple and very important reason: It just works, and never fails.

I have an ATI graphics chip built into a Compaq presario, It is also called an ATI radeon 200 express graphics adaptor. If I was running Ubuntu 24.04 I would have to load the AMD graphics open source driver to get it working at all. Using the pre-empt kernel from the 2.9.10 released ISO it works fine and runs the latency histogram fine . I suspect a deep seated bug in the open source driver or the hardware itself which is one reason I'm going to Debian instead of Ubuntu.