Re: [ubuntu-uk] Woke up this morning in low-res mode
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:48:09 +0100 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It says 'desktop effects could not be enabled', so it's running in low-res. Could this be a side effect of recent upgrades, or is it a hardware failure? If the latter, I suppose that means a new graphics card. I've never seen a graphics card partially fail. So I would suggest it's a software problem. More information would be useful. What machine, graphics card, driver, etc. Try booting with an older kernel. Have a search round launchpad to see if others have had the same problem. If using a proprietary driver try the open one or try updating or reinstalling it. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Woke up this morning in low-res mode
Woke up this morning, In low-res mode Couldn't render vi, Even good enough to code. Whoa! I got the blues! ... I'll get my coat. On 19 July 2011 09:18, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:48:09 +0100 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It says 'desktop effects could not be enabled', so it's running in low-res. Could this be a side effect of recent upgrades, or is it a hardware failure? If the latter, I suppose that means a new graphics card. I've never seen a graphics card partially fail. So I would suggest it's a software problem. More information would be useful. What machine, graphics card, driver, etc. Try booting with an older kernel. Have a search round launchpad to see if others have had the same problem. If using a proprietary driver try the open one or try updating or reinstalling it. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Woke up this morning in low-res mode
On Tue, Jul 19 at 08:18:58, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:48:09, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berkeley at gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It says 'desktop effects could not be enabled', so it's running in low-res. Could this be a side effect of recent upgrades, or is it a hardware failure? If the latter, I suppose that means a new graphics card. I've never seen a graphics card partially fail. So I would suggest it's a software problem. More information would be useful. What machine, graphics card, driver, etc. Try booting with an older kernel. Have a search round launchpad to see if others have had the same problem. If using a proprietary driver try the open one or try updating or reinstalling it. Steve Cook (Yorvyk) The machine is a Lenovo N500 and it's running Lucid 10.04 with all standard online upgrades, including Medibuntu, which I installed a couple of months ago in order to run Google Earth, which I think is the only application I have that actually uses high-res graphics. The graphics driver is not a proprietary one, as far as I know; it is whatever is standard for Lucid 10.04. Tell me what to do to identify it and troubleshoot it, if you can. Thanks. Rowan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
