[RESOLVED] Zorin OS6 Ultimate Flashing Screen

Got an Laptop intel Duo core -Computer- with the following system info
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz
Memory : 1930MB (389MB used)
Operating System : Linux Mint 13 Maya
User Name : jimthetyreman (Jim Saberton)
Date/Time : Sat 20 Apr 2013 12:21:37 BST
-Display-
Resolution : 1280x800 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA VIA VT82xx
-Input Devices-
Sleep Button
Lid Switch
Power Button
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
USB Optical Mouse
Video Bus
HDA VIA VT82xx Mic
HDA VIA VT82xx Headphone
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
-Printers-
No printers found
-SCSI Disks-
ATA WDC WD5000BPVT-0
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SN-S082D

It ran fine with windows XP SP3, I've tried Zorin OS6 lite and liked it so bought the DVD for OS6 Ultimate but found the screen just keeps flickering / flashing and it just won't operate properly?

Any suggestions as to what I need to do to be able to use Ultimate?

Hi and welcome to the forum,

check out this guide about updating and let us know if it helps:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2247

Regards Wolfman

Could you please post back the result of the following command so as to get some info about your gpu?

lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 vga

This what came back!

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] [1106:3371] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Mitac Device [1071:8615]
Kernel modules: viafb
06:01.0 Audio device [0403]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A/VT8251 HDA Controller [1106:3288] (rev 10)

Hope this makes sense to you?!

Hi,

did you update per the link I posted earlier and have you tried anything else like booting in safe graphics mode??.

Paste this command in a terminal so we can find out what hardware you have:

sudo lshw

Just for the graphics card:

sudo lshw -C display

And you should end up with something like this:

wolfman@fred:~$ sudo lshw -C display
[sudo] password for wolfman:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GF108 [GeForce GT 430]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:19 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:f0000000-f7ffffff memory:f8000000-f9ffffff ioport:ec00(size=128) memory:faf80000-faffffff
wolfman@fred:~$

Hope it helps.

Regards Wolfman

This is what came back from

description: VGA compatible controller
product: CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC]
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=32 mingnt=2
resources: memory:a0000000-bfffffff memory:c9000000-c9ffffff

So it's a VIA Technologies graphics card?

Does that help?

Hi,

you can try running "DPKG" per this guide and see if it helps solve the problem:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2247

Let us know if it helps.

ONLY USE A NETWORK CABLE CONNECTION TO DO THIS AND ACTIVATE NETWORK BEFORE RUNNING DPKG.

Regards Wolfman

Thanks for all your help, but I've had an email from Zorin explaining that my graphics card is not up to the job!!

So my laptop is gonna remain mint for the moment.

I have however dug out an old Packard Bell PC from the garage and installed Zorin in Fallback mode on that so the family can use it as a "Media" type centre!

Both my daughters have also had Zorin OS6 put on there netbooks along side XP and so far are loving it!!

Will probably get a 2nd hand lappy off Gumtree and have another go in the future!!

Thanks again!