[ubuntu-uk] Unity - fails to load automatically -- "low-graphics mode crashes"

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 9 May 2012 14:21, Philip Stubbs <philip at stuphi.co.uk> wrote:

> What graphics card do you have? Do you have the correct driver
> installed? Can I suggest you run 'lspci' and make sure that your
> graphics card is seen by Linux.


I have a AMD Radeon HD6630 2GB card, and the processor is: Intel Core
i5-2430M Processor

When I look in lspci I see the following:

matt at mariachi:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core
Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
Whistler [AMD Radeon HD 6600M Series] (rev ff)


Then in "Settings > Details >  Graphics" I see:

Driver: Intel Sandybridge Mobile
Experience: standard


which suggests that it's seeing the inbuilt chip ok...  I think!?


You could also look into /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see what X is doing on
> startup.

Nothing obvious in there.. but I will check next time immediately after
boot.


One thing I like to try is to stop gdm/lightdm whatever, and then run
> startx. If it fails it often gives a helpful message.

Good suggestion!  thanks... Will try it next boot.

Thanks Philip!
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