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

I am new to Ubuntu so please go easy! I managed to installed Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Vista after a little bit of work, as I kept getting a black screen with compiz crashing and the keyboard not working. Unfortunately after a fair amount of reading up on the problem I still couldn't understand what to do, and ended up getting lucky with a third install that got the pc working.

Now another new problem. After installing Chrome and going into the software centre, the window stayed a solid white. After restarting the computer an error message came up saying:

Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode. Your screen, graphics card, and input devices could not be detected correctly. You will have to configure these yourself.

There is no interface and I'm a little stuck. I am guessing it would be wise to update the video card drivers, although I haven't been able to test to see if the terminal will open. Is that what I should try or is there maybe another cause of the problem?

Zanna
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Darran
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Have you tried using the "additional drivers" tool (also called "jockey"?). If you have a nvidia graphics card you could try using genuine nvidia drivers instead of the open source version. If you can get into jockey, try to switch some settings. Hope that helps.

wolfv
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  • Ah good, I'll give that a try. You should be able to launch it by the terminal, isn't that right? – Darran May 25 '12 at 10:11
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try to install the latest version manually, i find out this:

wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run
chmod +x amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run
sh ./amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run

then follow the wizard and reboot. And as this page says (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI?action=show&redirect=RestrictedDrivers%2FATI):

fglrxinfo

You should get an output similar to the following:

display: :0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series       
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11631 Compatibility Profile Context
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