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Running in Low Graphics mode

Asked by hummingbird

When my Dell Optiplex 780 is started up, most of the time it says "System is running in low-graphics mode". I have 16.04 Xenial Xerus installed. I read through the other cases, but they are so old, I'm afraid to use them. I'm not having any other problems with the computer. I have a command to put in the terminal, but would rather not use it unless I'm told it will fix the problem. I don't want to make the problem worse. The computer seems fine, except for the very irritating start up message.

The command to terminal that I found says-

sudo apt-get install fglrx sudo reboot

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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hummingbird (hummingbird) said : 		#2

 Here is what it brought up.  Thank you.

carol@carol-OptiPlex-780:~$ sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a[sudo] password for carol:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for carol:
  *-display:0
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 03
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:34 memory:f7c00000-f7ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:ecb8(size=8)
  *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
       description: Display controller
       product: 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2.1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
       version: 03
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f7b00000-f7bfffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Release:    16.04
Codename:    xenial
Linux carol-OptiPlex-780 4.4.0-177-generic #207-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 16 01:16:10 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
carol@carol-OptiPlex-780:~$

On Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 11:22:57 AM CDT, actionparsnip <email address hidden> wrote:

 Your question #690090 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/690090

    Status: Open => Needs information

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What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

You say the cases you read are so old but so is your release. It's 4 years since it was released... Why such an old release? Bionic (Ubuntu 18.04) is also LTS and Focal (Ubuntu 20.04) is LTS and due to be released any day now
.....

Why Xenial? I suggest you upgrade to Bionic at least. The newer packages and kernel will help

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