Linux Mint Forums

Is litttle old my pc, but works great. i have Nvidia grpahic, on 2gb RAM, is sempron.
Well, at last day using LinuxMint XFCE 17.2 the screen start to distortion when i used Stellariuum software (astronomical). I made a quit clean installation of 17.3 XFCE (I deleted all .directorys except .chrome. chromium, .firefox, for get the configurations). But in new system frequently have graphic distortion: the words in titles is not possible to read, is liko noise. Sometimes in screen or just in browser distortion all, like semi rotation and all images very large, to some side.



I uso xfwm4 + comositing because is faster than with out compositing. Is too slow using just xfwm4
xfwm4 + compton is slow and do the same
metacity + compositing is fine (by now) but is not possible change window decoration.
Compotn option i prefer to use. Compiz not work, turn all screen blanck and i can do nothing.

I uso Nvidia drivers because nouveau didnt work, all screen have colors bar, and see nothing.

I didnt know how fix it. Is the first time in years that i have seial problems in linux.

I put a image about distortion words.

And some information about my pc.

$ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: Polaris Kernel: 3.19.0-32-generic i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.2 (Gtk 2.24.23)
Distro: Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa
Machine: Mobo: ECS model: 761GX-M754-964 v: 5.0 Bios: American Megatrends v: 080012 date: 02/27/2007
CPU: Single core AMD Sempron 2800+ (-UP-) cache: 256 KB
flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3) bmips: 3199 speed: 1599 MHz (max)
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache] bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.17.1 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce 6200 TurboCache/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW!
GLX Version: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 304.131 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 AC'97 Sound Controller
driver: snd_intel8x0 ports: e800 e400 bus-ID: 00:02.7
Card-2 Logitech QuickCam E2500 series driver: USB Audio usb-ID: 002-002
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.19.0-32-generic
Network: Card-1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
driver: sis900 port: e000 bus-ID: 00:04.0
IF: eth1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 driver: e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI port: b800 bus-ID: 00:0a.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 200.1GB (15.3% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD1600AAJB size: 160.0GB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: ST340810A size: 40.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 9.5G used: 5.8G (64%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb5
ID-2: /home size: 26G used: 20G (80%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb6
ID-3: swap-1 size: 3.05GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
ID-4: swap-2 size: 1.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb2
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:50C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 188 Uptime: 2:47 Memory: 1054.4/2015.1MB Init: Upstart runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.111) inxi: 2.2.28


$ sudo lshw -C video
PCI (sysfs)
*-display
descripción: VGA compatible controller
producto: NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache]
fabricante: NVIDIA Corporation
id físico: 0
información del bus: pci@0000:01:00.0
versión: a1
anchura: 64 bits
reloj: 33MHz
capacidades: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuración: driver=nvidia latency=0
recursos: irq:16 memoria:fd000000-fdffffff memoria:d0000000-dfffffff memoria:fc000000-fcffffff memoria:febe0000-febfffff


sudo lshw -C video
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 304.131
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL extensions:

I think you're simply asking too much of that weak old machine....

See this post, which seems to be talking about the same nvidia card (I always search ubuntuforums and askubuntu first):

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... st13038213

You may have problems running Flash on an old machine like that. Definitely try installing HTML5 browser plugins, there's a shift to HTML5 afoot anyway.

And turn off all display compositing ... I do that on newer hardware with better support.