Screen tearing on hp laptop

Whitecliff · 2 January 2022 20:46

Have hp laptop that installed zorin lite on. Works fine in the live session and when I install and restart the screen is so torn and distorted you can’t do anything. I installed drivers on the install and it’s still messed up. Not sure the next step. Thanks.

Michel · 2 January 2022 20:47

Looking up the specs from that laptop i would advise to use 32-bit of zorin os 15.3 lite.

Aravisian · 2 January 2022 20:56

Can the user confirm if the machine is 32bit or 64bit?

Michel · 2 January 2022 20:58

Here are the specs

https://www.techwalla.com/articles/hp-pavilion-dv6000-specs

Best would be a output of lspci so we can check this for certain.

Whitecliff · 2 January 2022 21:16

Machine is 64 bit

Whitecliff · 2 January 2022 21:17

Ok I will try that and report back. Thank you.

Aravisian · 2 January 2022 21:25

I have made a mistake in the past of assuming the specs on a users machine were the same as listed online. I am not knocking your helpfulness @Michel , just exercising caution that stems from my own mistakes.
A 32 bit OS should be able to run on a 64 bit machine, but the reverse is not true.

carmar · 2 January 2022 21:44

FWIW, I think @Michel is trying to point out that the machine is pretty low in specs - specially RAM. I recall a couple of older threads where posters were struggling to even get Z15 Lite 32 bit installed - the machines just barely met the minimum requirements but it turned out that more than that was needed just to get the installer to run successfully.

Hope this helps and sorry if I have misunderstood the issue.

Whitecliff · 2 January 2022 22:08

Thank you again for the help. The machine has been sitting unused for over 10 years but thought I would try to get it to be useful for my kid to check email and browse the web.