<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">-- On Tue, 12/8/09, NoOp <glgxg@sbcglobal.net> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: NoOp <glgxg@sbcglobal.net> Subject: Re: Ubuntu 9.10 repeated dialogue: "Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode" To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 8:32 PM <div class="plainMail">On 12/08/2009 04:03 PM, Leonard wrote: ... > As pointed out in a reply to NoOp's post on this same thread, purging > gdm on my Karmic 64 bit install sent the low res issue to device > null, including a partition of Karmic with gdm still installed. I > know that doesn't make sense but that's what happened. So If the new > gdm upgrade doesn't solve it for you maybe rming (purge it for sure) > will fix the issue. If you are using gdm as your display manager > then be sure to install kdm before you try to reboot. Hate to see you > go to Lenny when the low res issue can be solved. The low res issue > seems to have boiled down to a conflict between gdm, kdm and the > failsafe mode conflicting with each other according to what I've read > googling, so I just purged gdm(running kdm) and the problem went > away. Hope you at least try it and stay with Ubuntu. > > So, you'd recommend just purging gdm rather than trying the updated 2.28.1-0ubuntu2.1 which supposedly fixes the issue? My personal recommendation would be to just purge (k)ubuntu/kde and stick with gnome :-) That's not at all what I said. But I just noticed the smiley-:o) <quote> So If the new gdm upgrade doesn't solve it for you maybe rming (purge it for sure) will fix the issue. <quote> Leonard Chatagnier lenc5570@sbcglobal.net - </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>