Fresh install of ubunti 13.04, Dell Inspiron 1501, latest updates installed as of Jan 22. Vertical colured lines appear shortly after splash screen appears. Half the time machine will freeze and will need to be hard rebooted. If it does not freeze I can hear the audio chime for the log in screen, then closing the lid waiting and then resuming sees to bring the screen back. Also using external moniter will work while the lap top screen is at the same time unusable due this problem ,you can use Fn8 to toggle back and fourth till the screen is usable again. This appear to be a continuation of Bug#572521.
Using the 'quiet splash nomodset' option does not seem to consistently prevent the problem and screen resolution is very poor in this mode.
Screen will also "crash" into the vertical coloured lines if you try to "catch it" right before the machine goes to sleep.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Wed Jan 22 19:10:08 2014
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: saucy
DistroVariant: ubuntu
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GraphicsCard:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS482M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200] [1002:5975] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01f5]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-04 (49 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1501
MarkForUpload: True
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-15-generic root=UUID=0ed3a55f-2362-4bab-b5fc-5124e0a074ff ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/07/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2.6.3
dmi.board.name: 0UW744
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr2.6.3:bd12/07/2007:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1501:pvrNotSpecified:rvnDellInc.:rn0UW744:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1501
dmi.product.version: Not Specified
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.10+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.46-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.2.1-1ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.2.1-1ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.14.5-1ubuntu2~saucy1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.2.0-0ubuntu10
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.904-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.9-2ubuntu1
Lostground, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Saucy reached EOL on July 17, 2014.
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