“Your System running in low graphics mode.” Yeah, you have been served son! Today was one of those dark days for me. I was feeling tired after a few hours on the computer configuring some stuff – particularly LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl) tools. I did this because I am planning to create some APIs for a project! So, I just let my laptop go to sleep and when I came back it was OFF. What the heck? I asked myself and tried turning it ON to the shock of my eyes. This is what surprised me;
Whenever I clicked the OK button to see what was next, the mouse disappeared and even using the tab key didn’t help because the choices given didn’t work at all. You can imagine how many unspeakable words I said here.
Instead of hitting my head on the wall 12 times, I fired up my other laptop and searched on Google for similar instances. I knew I was not alone here – Google the hell out of it. By the way, I needed another computer to do that because I couldn’t get anything done with this one. If you run into this issue, do not panic. Follow these steps:
Before you even do this, you should know that you have a Graphics problem and these guidelines will help you fix that. You can find more information by doing a simple search. That is, if this post does not help you solve your problem. Sometimes, you might have to do a fresh install of your Ubuntu!
In order to arrive at the Terminal from the above screen, Start your computer while pressing these buttons: CTRL + ALT + F1 and then enter your username and password before moving on.
The System Running In Low Graphics Mode – Solution
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. . sudo apt-get update . . |
Then run this on your terminal when that is done:
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. . sudo apt-get -d install --reinstall gdm . . |
Follow that with the following line on your terminal:
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. . sudo apt-get remove --purge gdm . . |
Before you restart the machine, run this next line:
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. . sudo apt-get install gdm . . |
When prompted here, select GDM (This by the way is a Graphics Manager)
Finally, reboot this bad boy and you will be on your way to happy dancing;
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. . sudo reboot . . |
You can find more information by visiting the Ubuntu forums.
That should do it for you. If you found this post helpful, do not hesitate to share it with others online.
You know, if life gives you a bug, you can either eat it for lunch or let it bite you in the face. I would rather you ate it.
Good luck and have a great week!
See you soon because that is a wrap!
After struggling to fix the graphics problem for nearly 12 hours, at the time I nearly decided to take a rest from it i decided to carefully implement the above steps and the problem was solved straight away.
which username and password does it mean?
Your computer username and password; if you have used the terminal before, your name is always there and looks something like this :username@computerName – so you want the first part and the password that you set when you first set up your computer or the password you use when you use sudo to install stuff. Let me know how it goes.
i completed every single step stated above and it went pretty well but screen remained black after all this process.
Gracias! tenia rato buscando y no encontre nada, pero con esto se soluciono, tranks
I have a HP laptop with AMD RADEON graphics card. I’m trying to install ubuntu 13.10 x64 on it. But when I choose ‘try ubuntu’ option at beginning of installation, it says ‘your system is running in low graphics mode’.
So, I don’t have any option of installation at al. Please suggest what can I do?
Have you followed the instructions on this tutorial and it did not work still? If not, I would suggest you do that first and then let me know how it goes.
Hello…I can’t even try ubuntu in my laptop. After pressing try ubuntu button, it shows that message. I think your steps are only applicable when it is installed in hard drive, not from live cd. Please say something for the case of live cd
You should be able to boot your Ubuntu from your cd then go to the terminal; this is however contingent on whether the OS is installed or not – regardless of where. Beyond that, I have not tried that scenario myself so I am not familiar with it.
Thanks, you rock! I started trying the various solutions in an askubuntu thread (try recovery mode, too many files on the computer, etc.) and finally tried these steps and it worked like a charm.
I’m on an HP Pavilion laptop dv6000 series, Ubuntu 12.04.
I am glad it worked for you!
Thanx , It works…!!!!!
You are welcome!
I thought it’d done it, but after reboot, and putting in user name and password, it comes up with a *username*system product name: $
prompt.
so not sure what to do now!
Sorry, total noob with Ubuntu, I’m trying to fix my husbands puter after it had this graphics issue.
I am not sure what happened there. What happens when you enter your username and password again? Any errors?
hi Elisha
It just keeps going back to the system product name prompt.
I really wish I could figure it out for you. If all else fails, I would re-install Ubuntu since it is free of charge.
The command didn’t work in my desktop. Does the computer need to be connected to the Internet during the process?
I believe you need an internet connection so that you can install some packages through the terminal. Try that.
after completing the steps. my system standing at “UBUNTU” logo not going forward plz help me……
not working for me. sudo apt-get update does something and then tries to download archives from internet. Since try ubuntu option goes to “low graphics error mode”, cant connect to internet.
Also for other commands, it says “package gdm is not available, but is referred to by another package. However the following packages replace it: gnome-control-center-data”.
Please suggest.
You cannot update without an internet connection. So, I would check that to make sure you are connected.
Thanks for your help.
I followed all of your instructions, but now when I start the machine it doesn’t go to the desktop it just goes to that screen where you type everything in.
How do I get it to go to the desktop?
Which screen is it? The terminal?
Yes, the terminal. It seems to be working OK, except that it goes straight into the terminal and not to the screen
I have no idea what could be causing that. I would trying looking around the web to see if anyone has encountered a similar issue.
I have tried a few things, for example on running startx I get this
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert nvidia_173 : Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
Fatal server error:
If I find a solution I will let you know.
Thanks,
Mike
Hi, Elisha, I have the same problem(ubuntu 14.04), but when I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and login, the terminal cannot connect to the network, so I cannot update or install using apt-get.
Do you have any idea? Thanks.
You might have to use a wired connection if you have no other way to connect to a wireless connection. I have no other ideas that could be of help. If you get to fix it, please let me know how you did it.
I am back up. I downloaded Ubuntu again, but this time I ran it on the memory stick first and not on the PC and the screen worked OK. Then I installed from the system running on the memory stick and had no problems. Previously I had tried to install it directly onto the PC from the stick.
Might work for someone else.
In mycase ubuntu 12lts i replaced gdb in command s with gnome-control-center
Thanks for stopping by. So you got yours to work?
i am using proxy network then how to set the settings of ethernet to download the update
I tried ctrl+alt+F1, but my terminal is not showing properly, I cannot read the letters on screen. What should I do? Thanks. BTW I am using Ubuntu 14.
Tanks!!! It worked for me (ASUS Zenbook UX32VD)
A huge “Merci” for your help !
It works like a charm for me…
Thank you so much, it worked for me
Thank you. it’s working.
I tried the above steps and now upon reboot all I get is blank screen with small blinking curser on top left screen
Thank u very much…. It work
Hello,
I have followed these steps but after rebooting the screen remained black for over 30 minutes.
Does anyone have a solution?
Thank you. it’s working.