Low graphics mode

[Petter Adsen]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 08:05:36 -0400
John Hupp <ubuntu at prpcompany.com> wrote:

> On 9/1/2015 7:02 PM, Giles Redferne wrote:
> > Yeah rebooted several times. The video card works fine when I use the 
> > live DVD to get to mail.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Keith <keith_linux at comcast.net 
> > <mailto:keith_linux at comcast.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Did you reboot the computer? If you have a video card that is separate
> >     from the processor it is possible that it has failed.
> >
> >     On 9/1/2015 6:07 AM, Giles Redferne wrote:
> >     > I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. I booted up this morning and got that
> >     Ubuntu
> >     > was running in low graphics mode. I have no mouse. I press enter. It
> >     > then gives me a box that has several options. The top one, run
> >     in low
> >     > graphics mode is marked. The keyboard is now dead. I can't get past
> >     > this box I have tried several times with the same result. I didn't
> >     > make any changes last night, nor were there any updates.
> >
> 
> I would try booting with an older kernel.  Perhaps a newer kernel no 
> longer supports the video card.

If the graphics card is not initialized correctly, there is probably
also some indication of this in the system logs. Start
with /var/log/dmesg, and possibly /var/log/Xorg.0.log if it gets as far
as attempting to start X.

Petter

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