Black lines, no mouse pointer and a part of the screen in black on Lubuntu 13.04 & 12.10

[Jesús Guerrero]

I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 through the Alternate CD. The installation finished without no problems nor warnings.
The problem is that the login screen (lightdm) is showing horizontal black lines and also shows a huge amount of the screen colored with black and sometimes with lime green, the mouse pointer is not visible and when it's moved more lines appear on the screen.

When plymouth animation is running the screen resolution is set to 1024x768 and there's no problems, but when the login screen appears the resolution changes to 1280x960. And is impossible to login through lightdm. I've set the auto-login via tty and restarted, but the black lines, the black colored part of the screen and the mouse pointer issue remain. Also, when I'm logged in I tried to change the resolution to 1024x768 via xrandr on a terminal emulator, the resolution changes but the problems persist.

Because of this issues the desktop is totally unusable. 2 years ago I installed Lubuntu 11.04 on the same computer and it weren't no problems with it.

Computer specifications:

Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz Processor
256 MB RAM DDR Memory
40 GB Seagate HDD
S3 ProsavageDDR Video integrated card with 32MB of shared memory
ECS M925 or ECS M925L motherboard
Fresh install of Lubuntu 13.04 (and the same problem is present on Lubuntu 12.10)

"lspci" dump:
lspci | grep "VGA"
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]

Screenshots:

http://ubuntuone.com/3vzv7FbxK9KQ7fOs7Ig9G1

http://ubuntuone.com/2aNi0yyO7obv8PG5ZX4xe9

[Marcelo Moya Krause (marcelo-amk)]

Hi, do yo solve the problem?

tell me...

[Jesús Guerrero (ketchuz94)]

Hi Marcelo.
Yes! The problem is resolved.
I added this ppa: "ppa:tormodvolden/ppa" and installed from that ppa the packages xorg-server_2:1.13.3-0ubuntu6.1~bug1083022 and xserver-xorg-video-savage_1:2.3.6-0ubuntu1.1~bug1083032.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Hugo Venhorst (yougo)]

i have a Packard Bell Easynote E3220
CPU: AMD Athlon XP-M
Graphics: Savage

the repos suggested by Jesús fixed the problem for me!
Thanks, Jesús!

[Márcio de Souza Júnior (marcio-k-deactivatedaccount)]

1. add-apt-repository ppa:tormodvolden/ppa
2. apt-get update
3. reboot (or restart x)