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I have been trying to get Ubuntu 12.04 to launch on my Emachine 2828. I was able to load it and use the dual setup with windows xp. I am able to run windows, but I have not been able to run ubuntu. I get the low graphic mode message.. My processor is amd sempron 2800+, and video is via/s3g unichrome igp. I have tried most of the tips posted for low graphics...any help appreciated

PaulS59
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  • Actually what graphic card do you have? Can you post the output of lspci | grep VGA in your question's description?(Remember that when you get the low graphic message, just press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to drop into a tty session. There you need to give your user name and password and then you have to try the above command I have mentioned) – Venkatesh Apr 26 '14 at 06:36
  • VIA/S3G UNICHROME IGP – PaulS59 Apr 26 '14 at 06:44

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Maybe driver for your GPU is missing. Do you know what package in it is? If yes, use the Ctrl+Alt+F1 combination to switch to a TTY. Log in (if you've installed Ubuntu), and type:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y install NAME_OF_THE_PACKAGE

After the successful installion, type:

sudo reboot

Check the result.

If you don't know the package's name, please look at this question&answer. If you need any further help, please write a comment!

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antivirtel
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  • I downloaded the package with windows, not sure how to get it to ubuntu tty to load – PaulS59 Apr 26 '14 at 06:32
  • The quickest way is to place that driver to a pendrive. If you connect it, it will mount somewhere to /media. Install 'mc' program(sudo apt-get -y install mc), and run it: sudo mc /media - it is very similar to Total Commander. Install that driver. I hope that's a .deb, than you can just run a command: sudo dpkg -i NAME.deb; sudo apt-get install -f – antivirtel Apr 26 '14 at 12:56