This is what ''lspci -v'' says about the graphics on this laptop:
I ''think'' booting makes it as far as when the desktop is supposed to display, and that much the same happens with Lubuntu 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0 and Ubuntu 12.04. The former two do the same as Tahr Pup and the screen just displays stripes of colour, but they also throw up an error message during the boot process which says something about ''via-ircc'' and ''device not available,'' then ''can't reserve'' and a long number.VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Packard Bell B.V. Device c008
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 16
Memory at a4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at a0000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [70] AGP version 3.0
Ubuntu 12.04 throws up the same error message, but makes it to ''low graphics mode.''
(As I mentioned previously, Kubuntu 12.04 works fine, and there is no error message with it)
One detail I forgot earlier is that when booting up Lucid, for the first time only, I have to run Xorg to make the desktop fit the screen, while with Precise and Slacko I don't.
I hope that might give you some idea as to what's going wrong with Tahr, and please let me know if there's anything you can think of that I could do to try to get it working.