Hi all, tried finding helpful threads last night for the issue, but not sure exactly what the issue is either… It’s an Intel D945GCLF mini motherboard, 2GB ram, 80GB HDD, no graphic cards installed, it’s just the built-in graphics, etc. There’s a SATA DVD writer and IDE CD player/writer, and IDE 80GB HDD. I made the HDD the MASTER in BIOS, and the CD player/writer the SLAVE. And installed the OpenSuse Tumbleweed 64 bit (Net installer).
This bad flickering happens more when hovering over the shut off / power off button icon in menu or trying to click on or move desktop widgets around or window panels etc. It appears to be like a dark black / grey horizontal lightening bolt flickering… it’s not slender skinny horizontal lines, more like a single S from the S.S. (hitler’s troops) logo or whatever. But it goes across the screen horizontally, not vertically. I tried finding drivers for it, thinking that’s the issue, but I found one linux driver and it’s for the RealTek LAN driver. Which I could get later on, the internet is working on it.
I’m at a loss on what else to do, I like OpenSuse Tumbleweed, but I can’t give this tower to grandparents to use with that bad flickering. I wasn’t sure if it’s OpenSuse that’s at fault, and maybe try another Linux Distro, or just put Windows 7 64 bit on it and be done with it, since they’re probably more familiar with Windows OS’s anyway. Any help, suggestions, etc will be appreciated.
I would not give my rand parents openSUSE Tuumbleweed. Stick with normal distro and maybe even 13.1 because it is going to long term via evergreen. Too many potential gochas with a rolling distro. Keep it simple.
As to the flicker you did not say what version you are running. Nor did you say what CPU/GPU it is. The Intel driver is built into the kernel you should not need to get one. But there are some setting that might help with some Intel GPU’s
Thanks for reply, yeah, I’ve decided to just install Windows 7 64 bit on it, because that’s what most in the family are used too, the Windows Operating Systems. I’ll just keep the Linux OSes for myself lol.
Not sure of exact version, except the ISO is titled: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-NET-x86_64-Snapshot20150815-Media.iso which was downloaded the other day and was already “burnt” to USB stick. Processor is the Intel Atom 230 1.6Ghz
I tried looking for some bios settings or whatever, but didn’t find solution yet, but have already decided to use Windows 7 64bit, quick erased HDD and now installing Windows 7 Home Premium. Thanks again for help, your reply.
Tumbleweed is just a bad choice for people that don’t know computers. I’d stick with plain vanilla 13.2 or 13.1. Remember that Windows is a virus magnet and people that don’t know tend to get them so you will have much more maintenance and hand holding with Windows. Linux can be a chore getting it started but once you get it right is is rock solid and no worries about virus and the ilk.
Oh yeah, no doubt, my grand rents don’t even know windows OS well yet lol, so giving them a linux would have them mentally flustered lmao. And yeah, windows is virus magnet, I keep tabs on their computer though and make sure it’s clean from time to time. Regarding flickering with tumbleweed, I installed it on the Dell Optiplex 755 tower of mine with NEC 24" AccuSync LCD monitor, 8gb ram, quad core processor, 1tb hdd and no flickering etc. I believe it was cause the small and old mini motherboard was really at fault, think I got it back in 2008 or some such, only has 1.x GHz processor too.