I've just install Lubuntu 13.04 32-bit on an old machine. When I boot, I essentially get no GUI. I have a cursor, and very poor 8-bit colour background, but no windows or buttons etc. I believe this is just a login screen, but I just can't tell.
Switching to tty1 (I think that's what it's called) via Ctrl + Alt + F1, I can login, and run programs as I would expect. Everything seems to be working except the GUI. It doesn't appear to be running lxde, only lightdm, but I think that's to be expected due to the fact I haven't logged in yet.
Unfortunately, I'm struggling get wifi to connect from the command line, so I can't run updates yet, although it was connected during install, so I think some were done then.
Any help in diagnosing and solving the problem would be appreciated. Which logs should I check? What other information would be useful?
Output of lspci -v:
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VGA compatible controller: S3 Graphics Ltd. 86c375 [ViRGE/DX] or 86c385 [ViRGE/GX] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: S3 Graphics Ltd. ViRGE/DX
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 18020000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Kernel driver in use: s3fb
VGA compatible controller: S3 Graphics Ltd. Savage 4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Diamond Multimedia Systems Stealth III S540
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 10
Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at e1000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
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