On 01/02/2014 05:24 PM, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
Hello. I downloaded Lubuntu 13.10 today and updated the system
completely. I'm running on a Dell Dimension 3000 desktop. I'm
encountering a problem with graphics that is not unique to Lubuntu, but
perhaps can be solved here.
I use Evolution as my groupware client. Version 3.2.3, that ships with
many distros based on the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, is buggy and annoying. You
need to have a distro that runs at least Ubuntu 12.10 in order to have
the dependencies you need to run later versions of Evolution, which work
much better.
But later versions of Linux bork my graphics in both Firefox and
Chromium. When I try to play a video, say, on YouTube, the video is
squished and distorted, just maddening!
So, my quandary: I need later versions of Evolution in order to get my
work done, which require later versions of the Ubuntu software, but
these later versions seem to really bork my graphics so that I can't see
anything!
Oddly, VLC works fine. And I can copy a URL from YouTube, open it in
VLC, and it works just fine!
I'm so puzzled. If anyone can help, I'd really be grateful. Thanks.
Jeffrey:
I have a Dell Dimension DX-1100 machine, which had similar problems,
arising from the Intel graphics card having been abandoned by Linux.
The symptoms playing YouTube videos were as you described, and the
Lubuntu sign-on screen has 'ragged edges' instead of smooth color
gradients.
My other Dell machines have an AGP card-slot for a NVIDIA graphics card,
and I solved the problem with them by getting a NVIDIA (GeForce)
6200-256 graphics card for the AGP card-slot.
My DX-1100 machine had no AGP card-slot, so I thought there was nothing
I could do for it (my then primary machine).
But I found out that there were NVIDIA graphics cards that worked with
ordinary (not the new) PCI slots. So I thought that would solve the
problem for my DX-1100 machine, as well as a Dell Optiplex GX-260.
To my dismay, I discovered the PCI NVIDIA card didn't work at all in the
older (slower) GX-260 (or GX-240), but fortunately, it worked fine in
the Dell DX-1100 (which has a Celeron processor, and a 400-MHz
memory-bus speed).
So the PCI version of the NVIDIA card rescued my Dell DX-1100. But the
other PCI NVIDIA card I bought was not usable in the slower machines,
and I couldn't return it (wasting about $70).
I later put an AGP NVIDIA card in the GX-260, which fixed the problem,
allowing it to go into the future with Linux.
If your Dimension-3000 has an AGP card-slot, a NVIDIA card (fitting into
an AGP slot) should fix it. If it doesn't have an AGP card-slot, but
has a 400 MHz memory-bus speed, the PCI-card-slot version of the NVIDIA
graphics card /_might_/ solve your problem.
The graphics card that saved my Dell DX-1100 was a "NVIDIA GeForce 6200
512MB DDR2 PCI" card. Beware that it might not work (as it didn't work
in my Dell GX-240, or in my GX-260, both of which have a slower
memory-bus speed).
--
Sincerely,
Aere
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