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How to fix “The system is running in low-graphics mode” error?

I just bought a new laptop and am attempting to put Ubuntu 10.04 on its own partition. After installation, I found that I was unable to change my screen resolution and that it labelled my monitor type as "unknown". I figured the issue was that I did not have the nvidia drivers installed so I downloaded and installed them from nvidia's website.

This process involved killing the xserver while install went through, which wasn't too much trouble. After installing the drivers, upon a fresh reboot I am given an error message stating that Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode. I am given 5 options to choose from, but none gets my screen resolution working properly.

I have an nvidia 550M on a new Asus laptop. Asus N53SN

Brand new, fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04.

What my xorg.conf file looks like:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice  "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice  "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier   "Mouse0"
Driver     "mouse"
Option    "Protocol" "auto"
Option    "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option    "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option     "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier   "Keyboard0"
Driver    "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "Monitor0"
VendorName   "Unknowkn"
ModelName    "Unknown"
HorizSync   28.0-33.0
VertRefresh   43.0-72.0
Option    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier   "Device0"
Driver    "nvidia"
VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier   "Screen0"
Device   "Device0"
Monitor    "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth    24
SubSection    "Display"
    Depth    24
EndSubsection
EndSection
Zanna
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Simba
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  • Have you blacklisted the open source nouveau driver? Check what modules are loaded with lsmod. – mikewhatever Mar 17 '12 at 22:50
  • How do I blacklist it? I have it listed in lsmod as "nouveau 515227 (size) 0 – Simba Mar 17 '12 at 23:55
  • I believe I have blacklisted nouveau and I am still getting the problem. I even completely removed nouveau from my system and I still have the same issue. – Simba Mar 18 '12 at 02:19

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Run gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf, and add the following to the bottom:

blacklist vga16fb
blacklist nouveau
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv

...save and reboot.

PS: If you want the monitor to become known, edit the "Monitor" section of xorg.cong, for example:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "Monitor0"
VendorName   "Aliens"
ModelName    "XoXo"
HorizSync   28.0-33.0
VertRefresh   43.0-72.0
Option    "DPMS"
EndSection
mikewhatever
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  • This does not change anything really. I have noticed another little thing when I boot ubuntu in low-graphics mode. When I try to access my monitor display settings it asks if I want to run NVIDIA X server settings and when I do, I get an error stating "You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run 'nvidia-xconfig' as root), and restart the X server. – Simba Mar 18 '12 at 03:00
  • When I do the above and reboot, I still have the low graphics problem and the above error message popup when I try to access my monitor display settings. I have tried using this website as a reference to solve my issues aswell, and to no avail: http://blog.musicvm.com/solved-you-do-not-appear-be-using-nvidia-x-driver-linux-ubuntu – Simba Mar 18 '12 at 03:02
  • Hm..., try re-installing the Nvidia driver again, also, check if nouveau got blacklisted with lsmod. – mikewhatever Mar 18 '12 at 04:08
  • ive reinstalled the drivers already twice i believe. also an lsmod shows nothing relating to nouveau now... so that's good i guess. – Simba Mar 18 '12 at 04:16