Hi to Everybody! Please, don't give up on this point. My Company has accepted my proposal to switch all computers to Lubuntu, after a test period in order to understand if all employees can use it. You can imagine, they are a little bit suspicious!
So, on a total of 21 Pcs (most of them with XP... so, it's the right moment to change), I've installed on 3 desktop Pcs Saucy, and now they are working fine from one month (after another month passed to solve a problem with another graphic card - Nvidia Riva). 7 of those computers are unluckily Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo L7320 (so with the VIA P4M800), given to our salesmen. Until now, I was able -as written above- to only install Kubuntu 12.04, forcing it to use vesa drivers so with faded colors and lower resolution (although correct settings in xorg.conf file, that I effectively find in Xorg.log, except for the screen resolution that fails to set). Doing the same (poor) result with Lubuntu 13.10 seems more difficult, at least for me (I wasn't able to go after the beginning of the installation, since it freezes). I've tried to force to load Unichrome setting correct values of frequency, screen resolutions etc, but the best result I have obtained in this case is a text mode. I hope in the solution of this point, thanks in advance for your precious support! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1205643 Title: VIA P4M800 graphics broken in Lubuntu/Xubuntu Saucy & Trusty Status in “xserver-xorg-video-openchrome” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Please bear with me and read all of this. Since I can't get a working display in Saucy with that graphics chip I need to use this method to file the initial bug report, but I can provide info using a chroot or replacing the "quiet splash" boot parameter with "text" which takes me to a tty interface. I hope using the tty interface provided by using the "text" boot parameter I can use "apport-collect" to collect the info needed from an installed Lubuntu 13.10 but I won't do so until asked by a dev in case some "switch" needs to be set to collect the appropriate info. I also want to say that I'm fully aware that graphics chip is not supported by Ubuntu/compiz itself, or even GNOME's mutter window manager, but I think it should still work with the openbox, metacity, and Xfwm window managers ...... at least I hope so :^) So onto what actually happens. When I try to boot either Lubuntu or Xubuntu Saucy Alpha 2, either the live image or an installed version, I just get a frozen progress bar. So it's just 5 frozen dots on the screen. If I try booting through the recovery mode or otherwise trying to "startx" or "'sudo service lightdm start' I just get a blank screen. I can see the backlight is working but that's all. This is the specific hardware: VIA C7 CPU @ 1500MHz VIA CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 Graphics [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01) VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78) 1GB DDR2 RAM I did take a pic of the live image boot process while dealing with an unrelated d-i bug during Lubuntu Alpha 2 testing process: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/145894508/P4M800_xfreeze.JPG Now I'm wondering what else to say ............... the same Saucy images and installs work with two other totally different sets of hardware. I'm ready to roll up my sleeves to help gather any needed info. Thanks in advance. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/+bug/1205643/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
