@ Erick: many thanks for the suggestion, I'll create an account in Ubuntu Forums as you suggested.
But I post also there the results of the last Ubuntu-based saturday, when I did many installations and all of them affected by the impossiblity to get a working x-server: - 1st installation: Ubuntu 12.04.1 - i386 desktop version - the installation is very slow, it freezes towards the end. The Livecd session works very fine, correct maximum screen resolution, good colours. Tried to install also from the Livecd session. Grub damaged. - 2nd installation: Ubuntu 12.04.0 - i 386 desktop version - the installation is quicker, but it freezes from livecd session (graphics ok). In the direct installation it seizes up, but you can continue if you continue to hold a key... at the end, grubs work (I can start XP session and Ubuntu recovery mode), but during the loading, after a fast appearing of the Ubuntu logo, it freezes in a dark screen... no way to enter in a terminal. In the recovery mode, I tried failsafeX session, but after a while a "window" appears: the message says that it is impossible to identify monitor and graphic card, then it returns to the recovery menu without starting a low-resolution session - 3rd installation: Kubuntu 12.04.1 - i386 desktop version - i don't try livecd session, I directly start with the installation. Also here I have to hold an any key to keep the installation ongoing, otherwise it freezes but it is sufficient to return to hold a key and it restarts. At the end, I have a working grub and it loads the system without freezing. At the beginning, all seems ok, the screen resolution is the correct WXGA and not the XGA that I had in the previous installation when I forced Kubuntu to use vesa drivers. After a little bit, the system begins to continuously crash, a message (I have been stupid not to literally write the contents, but I was quite tired...) appears and more or less says that 'probably a bad graphic driver is installed'. I try to reconfigure Xserver, but after about ten minutes the system becomes very slow, it's difficult to use it although the nice grapchic result... so I'm ready for... - 4th installation: Ubuntu 12.04.0 - alternate version. Here the installation is very fast and smooth. When I restart, the Ubuntu logo appears but the loading freezes in the "usual dark" screen. Then I did the same passage of 2nd installation with failsafeX and the same message that it's impossible to determine screen and graphic card... so I have created a xorg.conf file forcing to load openchrome as this: http://www.linlap.com/fujitsu_amilo_l7320gw The system freezes during the loading, so in the 'usual' recovery mode I've modified the xorg.conf file replacing 'openchrome' with 'vesa' (sic!). Ok, now the system starts, with the same problems of my first post here (XGA resolution instead of WXGA, faded colours etc.)... am I correct if I say that perhaps it's a bug of openchrome driver more than X-stack? Excuse me if I've been a little bit talkative, but I desired only to be clear... obviously now (with vesa) the system works also with 12.04.4 (after the updates). @Erick: yes, the ram is 1gb, the cpu is that but later I'll create an account for Ubuntu Forums as you said. Thanks in advance. -- 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 & 12.04.4 candidate Status in “xserver-xorg-video-openchrome” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “xserver-xorg-video-openchrome” source package in Saucy: Won't Fix Status in “xserver-xorg-video-openchrome” source package in Trusty: Fix Released 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. 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