Can't maintain image on Startup screen
 

In the last week I installed the Linux 17.3 Cinnamon operating system, replacing Windows XP professional. I have listed the old and new system below.

Upon the first start up it showed the desk top with a distorted image and it has continued to be distorted on every start-up, but the icons are always clear on desk top and all Internet images look OK The resolution also look good. It's just the display image of the start up screen.

But if I go into the “backgrounds” settings. I found that if I changed the “backgrounds” 3 or 4 time, the desk top image becomes good . But on any restart the image is distorted again.

New system
Operating System Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon 32bit
Cinnamon Version 2.8.8
Linux Kernel 3.19.0-32-generic
Processor Pentium Dual-Core CPU 2.60GHz x 2
Memory 2.9 GiB
Hard Drive 237.2 GB
Graphics Card Intel Corp 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller

Old system
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3, 32 bit
Processor: Intel Pentium III Xeon processor, x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 3037 Mb
Graphics Card: Intel(R) G41 Express Chipset, 128 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 234442 MB, Free - 205851 MB;
Motherboard: LENOVO, to be filled by O.E.M.
Antivirus: PC Cleaners, Updated: Yes, On-Demand Scanner:

Monitor
SAMSUNG 2343BWX High Glossy Black 23" 5ms 16:9 Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 20000:1 (DC) w/ HDCP Support

A screenshot would be nice :hattip:

Ok one screen shot.

Looks like your graphics card is a bit old (apart from Pentium processor :D). This bug report has a solution, though for Lubuntu. Try putting this into your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
This will change your X.org acceleration method to UXA.

This is a shot after I change display a number of times.
Seem like it has the ability.

I don't know how to get to /etc/X11/xorg.con
I tried the terminal.
This may be beyond my pay grade.
But I am up to giving it a try if you can give me direction.

I could get a new graphics card if you think that will help.
But can my old system deal with that?

Okay, here's the deal. Open a terminal, then type sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Then it will ask for a password, in case you have nano ('tis a simple text editor, you know :hattip:) installed it will open the file.
If you don't, then install it! (sudo apt install nano). I doubt if you'll need to install it though, it's almost always in default installations.
So, after it opened the file, append it with the code I sent you previously. Then press Ctrl+X to exit and Y to save the file. After this reboot (you actually need only to restart X11, but as long as you use Mint, which has a display manager, you'll need to reboot).

make it smaller lower rez but not to low if it has to render it bigger -- by start up image you mean like on the grub screen or a splash screen? same thing to set the image your using to a proper size and rez to render it correctly.

That how i did it the first time and did try a few more time but no luck.

just to see what you can see. that's what I'd do to ensure thier is no config on it whatsoever somewhere in the system.

The only thing I see close to config is on the 5th to the last line

/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xorg-wacom.pc
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xkit/__pycache__/xorgparser.cpython-34.pyc
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xkit/xorgparser.py
/usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/xorg
peter@peter-ThinkCentre-A58 ~ $

This will create xorg.conf, you did not follow the advice given to you.

OK, I got it. GNU nano 2.2.6 File: /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I want to make sure I understand, and I don't think I do .
What part of the below am I to type? All of it, or just what is in punctuation marks. Or do I put the 5 lines as it is below.

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
End Section

The next thing I see is that I am to press Ctrl+X to exit and then Y to save.
Then reboot.
Then restatt X11. How do I restart X11?

See post #4, that's the exact content you want. Not End Section, it is EndSection. You do not restart X, reboot will do.

@Emerson he did follow it, it was written to give indecation a config file was already there, not created a new file and name it xorg.conf