Ubuntu Graphics are Wonky/Weird - Problematic Display

[anthony-anselmo]

Okay I installed the latest Ubuntu on a new machine, but the graphics are very wonky/weird. Lots of triangles and display problems.

This is an old PC machine my neighbor gave me.

I was able to install an older version of Ubuntu from a long time ago with no problems but this version I have display issues.

Any suggestions?

[howefield]

Thread moved to the "Apple Hardware Users" forum.

[anthony-anselmo]

This really a PC Users forum issue.

[ajgreeny]

All your previous posts have been related to Apple machines; is this not the case with this one?

Tell us in detail what the hardware is. "an old PC machine my neighbour gave me" is not enough to give us any real chance to help you.

[anthony-anselmo]

It is an old PC with Windows XP on it, probably 2002? AMD processor, MSI is all I know.

[ajgreeny]

Moved back to General help as not Apple hardware.

Assuming you can boot to Ubuntu, please use Ctrl+Alt+F4 to get to a tty command line, login with username and password (typing password will not show anything on screen, not even asterisks) and then run command

inxi -Fzx

and post the output back here.

As the computer is from 2002 I suspect it will not have sufficient resources to run Ubuntu, but it may just about be possible to run Xubuntu or Lubuntu if it is definitely 64bit.
If it's only 32bit you will have to use something else as none of the Ubuntu family of OSs are available now as 32bit images.

[anthony-anselmo]

I got command inxi not found

[ajgreeny]

OK, so run these two commands from the tty you used before

sudo apt install inxi

to install inxi then

inxi -Fzx

to find the hardware.