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Video in low graphics mode

Asked by William Pabon

My desktop has been working OK for months with 10.04 LTS. Today, while I was working with an application, the mouse stopped working and then, everything else. I was forced to turn the machine OFF to start all over again. Now, when the boot process occurs I get a message saying that the system is running in low graphics mode. The five or six lines of the message say that the system failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device PCI:5:0:0. When I go to the NVIDIA server settings I get another message saying:

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.

The pc works OK in low resolution, but very slow. This situation is the first time that occurs on my machine. I will really appreciate any help for the solution of this issue. Thanks.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; xrandr

Thanks

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#2

As requested:

williepabon@WP-WrkStation:~$ sudo lshw -C display
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G86 [GeForce 8400 GS]
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:de000000-deffffff memory:d0000000-d7ffffff(prefetchable) memory:dc000000-ddffffff ioport:cc80(size=128) memory:dfc00000-dfc1ffff(prefetchable)
williepabon@WP-WrkStation:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
williepabon@WP-WrkStation:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1050
default connected 1680x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1680x1050 50.0* 51.0
   1600x1024 52.0
   1440x900 53.0
   1400x1050 54.0 55.0 56.0
   1360x768 57.0 58.0
   1280x1024 59.0 60.0 61.0
   1280x960 62.0 63.0
   1152x864 64.0 65.0 66.0 67.0 68.0 69.0 70.0
   1024x768 71.0 72.0 73.0 74.0 75.0 76.0
   960x720 77.0 78.0
   960x600 79.0
   960x540 80.0
   928x696 81.0 82.0
   896x672 83.0 84.0
   840x525 85.0 86.0 87.0 88.0 89.0
   832x624 90.0
   800x600 91.0 92.0 93.0 94.0 95.0 96.0 97.0 98.0 99.0 100.0
   800x512 101.0
   720x450 102.0
   720x400 103.0
   700x525 104.0 105.0 106.0 107.0
   680x384 108.0 109.0
   640x512 110.0 111.0 112.0
   640x480 113.0 114.0 115.0 116.0 117.0 118.0 119.0 120.0
   640x400 121.0
   640x350 122.0
   576x432 123.0 124.0 125.0 126.0 127.0 128.0 129.0
   512x384 130.0 131.0 132.0 133.0 134.0
   416x312 135.0
   400x300 136.0 137.0 138.0 139.0 140.0
   360x200 141.0
   320x240 142.0 143.0 144.0 145.0
   320x200 146.0
   320x175 147.0
williepabon@WP-WrkStation:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Can you give the output of:

dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#4

Thanks for the help. Found out that I had a defective card. After installing a new card (NVIDIA GeForce 240 GT) the problem was solved. But unfortunately, another problem was generated with audio. Will discuss it on a separate question.