dimitris.varu writes:
Hi i recently install debian 11 stable. Amd64 in hp dv6300 laptop.Gnome is very glitched from login through desktop. Many textures missing icons missing white squares everywhere...Lxde runs ok without problems... Gpu is nvidia 7200go nouveau driver.I know is old hardware.. any help or advice is most welcome! Tnx for your time
Is there a specific reason for needing GNOME on this machine?
From https://www.cnet.com/reviews/hp-pavilion-dv6300-preview/ I gather ithas a rather old processor (Celeron M 440 to Core 2DuoT7200) -- which one do you have exactly? Also, it seems there would be at most 2 GiB of RAM.
I'd thus suggest to install something lightweight like LXDE, Fluxbox, IceWM. Using a plain window manager will reduce the number of GUI background applications and that may free some essential RAM and CPU resources that you can use for your application of interest.
Of course, if you need to stay with a mordern DE that requires GPU accelleration you could always try to install an old proprietary NVidia driver. The Debian package would be `nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms` but I am afraid the last release it was part of was Debian Stretch (Debian 9).
HTH Linux-Fan ΓΆΓΆ
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