System is running in low graphics mode

Zorin forum,

Dell D400 32 bit Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002
Intel Pentium 1400MHz, PAE not supported, 2GB Ram,
32GB SSD.

Zorin looks like a good replacement for Windows XP if I
could get it to work.

I downloaded a non pae version of Zorin from this web site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zorin62nonpae/
The MD5sum checked out.

Repartitioned my HDD and installed. Get the message "System
is Running in Low Graphics Mode". I found and tried about
25 sudo commands that are supposed to fix this. None worked.
When Zorin was installing the graphics worked fine. Where do
I go from here?

Jerryd

Hi,

try booting and highlight the Zorin menu (1st option) and then press "Tab" and type the following then press "Enter":

xforcevesa

nomodeset

acpi=off

Or all 3 togther:

xforcevesa nomodeset acpi=off

Let us know if it helps!.

DId you do a disk install?.

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4771

I had a problem like this once with a nVidia card. I reinstalled, selected the nVidia driver in synaptic and installed.
Previously I installed it by manually adding the driver, but that didn't work like I hoped...
If you are not going to play games the nouveau drivers will work also in most cases.

Zorun forum,
Thanks for the replies.

Graphics card is an Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME

I did do a disk install but I have since wiped it out.
I can boot up in LIVE CD mode and try these commands.
or I can reinstall on disk.

In the boot menu after I type tab and enter these commands
do I then select one of the boot options or just type
enter.

Jerryd

Just press the enter key!

Wolfman,

Booting off flash drive was very different after entering your commands.

First the screen went blank and a color progress bar appeared on the
bottom of the screen. When the color bar was complete it went back
to the boot menu but the graphics was about half tone. Then there
were many flashes of various colors on the screen and eventually
a task bar showed up. It was about 1 inch tall and had several
icons. The graphics was still half tone and very flakey.
The clock shows the correct time. I can click on the icons and
the appropiate window will pop up. I clicked on the Z on the far
left and a window poped up saying "Failure to download extra data
files flash plugin installer. There was a place to click that said
"run this actio now". I clicked on it and at the top of the screen
was this message

"flashplugin-installer: downloading Http://archive.
canonical.com/pool/padobe-flashplugin/adobe-ofig.tar.gz"

This message is in perfect graphics even though the rest of the
screen is still flakey and half tone.

It's still unusable but closer.

Jerryd

Hi Jerry,

try using "xforcevesa" only!.

Zorin forum,

Just adding "xforcevesa" produced the "System is running in low
graphics mode" again.


Here's my test conditions.
The power chord is plugged as is an ethernet cable.
I live boot from a flash drive and when the boot menu appears
I type tab. Then I add your suggested commands to the list
that is already on the screen and type enter.

Jerryd

After a fresh install, can you keep 'testing' and install the Intel specific driver? Information here:

https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/ ... .0.4-linux

Downloads here:

https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads

Swarfendor437,

I downloaded the Intel Graphics Installer. Do I put this
on the flash drive so I can install it at the command line
prompt?

Also do I type

wget --no-check-certificate https://download.01.org/gfx/RPM-GPG-KEY-ilg -O - | \
sudo apt-key add -

wget --no-check-certificate https://download.01.org/gfx/RPM-GPG-KEY-ilg-2 -O - | \
sudo apt-key add -

Will it then install the correct driver?

I don't know much about linux but this shouldn't be this difficult.

Jerryd

Hi, I cannot really advise as I don't have an Intel graphics setup to try this out - hopefully one of the other mods can assist with that one!

Swarfendor437,
Thanks for trying to help.
I'll probably get more help here and I'm not about
to give up.

Jerryd

jerdonald wrote:Zorin forum,

Just adding "xforcevesa" produced the "System is running in low
graphics mode" again.


Here's my test conditions.
The power chord is plugged as is an ethernet cable.
I live boot from a flash drive and when the boot menu appears
I type tab. Then I add your suggested commands to the list
that is already on the screen and type enter.

Jerryd

Hi Jerry,

you don't "type" Tab, you press the "Tab Key" to enter the menu editor and once you have typed "xforcevesa", you press the "Enter" key!.

The easy way to install Intel graphics drivers is to go here https://01.org/linuxgraphics/ and click on the download link where it says "Graphics Installer", either 32 or 64 bit for Ubuntu!. THIS IS FOR ZORIN 8 (UBUNTU 13.10) ONLY!.

You can install the Intel drivers once the system is installed!.

Wolfman,

I did press the tab key, added xforcevesa to the commands already on
the screen and pressed enter.

Once booted I still get "System is running in low graphics mode"
and then there is a non graphics screen and a command line prompt.

I have downloaded intel-linux-graphics-installer_1.0.4-0intel1_i386(1).deb
but it's on my windows desktop which isn't available when I boot from
the flash drive. Also the Zorin I'm using
is a non PAE 6.4 core.

The closest I have come to making this work is when I added
xforcevesa nomodeset acpi=off. See previous post.

Jerryd

Zorin forum,

UPDATE
I booted using "xforcevesa nomodeset acpi=off" and got what I would
call a desktop but with the flakey graphics.

I got a terminal and typed some sudo commands just to see if I
could make anything happen. I don't know what I did but a
message came up saying to type "sudo install mailavenger". When
I did a window came up giving me some choices of how to connect
to mail. This window and the entire screen graphics were perfect.
Even the text was right but when I went back to the "desktop"
(ctrl+alt+F7) the graphics was flakey again.

Jerryd

Hi Jerry,

well you appear to be halfway there!.

Have you done an install yet?.

I edited out the references to Nvidia as I am mad sometimes and don't know why I put it in there in the first place!.

If you can boot into an okayish desktop, do an install, it really is the only way to find out whether the system will work for you!.

You still didn't answer this question for us though!:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4771

Zorin forum,

I re-burned the flash drive and installed Zorin on my hard drive.
It now boots and everything seems to work. I had to do a lot
of reading to find the commands to install the firmware for my
wireless.

I downloaded Firefox which came as a tar file. When I extracted
all the files there was nothing like a setup or install or
script to install it. I read a lot of web sites and realized
that this is not going to be a simple OS. One site listed
a string of very cryptic commands to enter into a terminal
to get it installed.

I'm not new to a command type interface since I used Unix for
30 years but having gotten used to point and click only system
(Windows) I don't want to go back to that. I'm not a big fan
of anything MS but I may be stuck with it or hope something
like ReactOS becomes a reality some day.

Someone needs to take Linux in that direction.

Thanks for all the help.

Jerryd

Hi Jerry,

why are you trying to install a .tar package, Firefox can be easily installed through the software managers using GUI rather than command line!, open either Synaptic and search for firefox or use Ubuntu Software Center!.