Public bug reported: The "Your system is running in low-graphics mode" affects of a lot of users and can be cause by literally thousand of issues regarding graphics (query askubuntu.com if interested). That already starts the list of issues with this particular dialog and the situation Ubuntu users are put into:
* One dialog with the same message for thousands of causes. Something has to be wrong here. There's a reason for everything, at least in IT, and it can be communicated - except maybe if the screen isn't plugged in, but that's why we have IT support. -> be useful explain what's wrong. It doesn't matter if multiple packages are involved - cooperate! Everything runs in processes and they have return codes and they can be investigated and interpreted and finally transformed into useful error messages - every error of any dependency! * The sentence "... You will need to configure these yourself" could only be more rude if there was a middle finger created with characters in cowsay manner -> be helpful, add a wizard to create the settings (instructions like http://askubuntu.com/questions/141606/how-to-fix-the-system-is-running-in-low-graphics-mode-error shouldn't be that hard to be transformed into a script and it'd help thousands of Ubuntu users which will one day end up with the "low graphics" dialog). Ubuntu is a desktop OS, not a middle finger OS, I'd even say very, very far from it, but exaggeration illustrates. * The dialog - I've experienced it hundreds of times - is only very rarely responsive to mouse input -> improve testing and harden this crucial piece of software. * There's not single display manager which provides useful logs - not only because they all have multiple log files with unintuitive names and don't explain their relation in the manpage, but also because they're spreading the messages over files like a water sprinkler (e.g. `lightdm`'s `lightdm.log would contain the failure of parsing a configuration file and its `x-0.log` contains the reaction of the process - makes you wonder where else could useful information be hidden...) -> no idea what to do here since the display manager can't be rewritten from scratch and are all waiting to work with wayland anyway ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu4 Uname: Linux 4.3.0-040300-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Mon Feb 8 22:45:24 2016 DistUpgraded: 2015-11-19 14:19:26,522 DEBUG enabling apt cron job DistroCodename: wily DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3903] NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [GeForce 610M] [10de:1058] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3903] InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-17 (844 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MachineType: LENOVO IdeaPad U410 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.3.0-040300-generic root=UUID=8c488557-8173-43a2-a3a8-df0a24695c08 ro rootflags=subvol=ubuntu-main-root quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-11-19 (81 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 09/25/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd. dmi.bios.version: 65CN90WW dmi.board.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.board.name: Lenovo dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: 31900003WIN8 STD MLT dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Lenovo U410 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLtd.:bvr65CN90WW:bd09/25/2012:svnLENOVO:pnIdeaPadU410:pvrLenovoU410:rvnLENOVO:rnLenovo:rvr31900003WIN8STDMLT:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrLenovoU410: dmi.product.name: IdeaPad U410 dmi.product.version: Lenovo U410 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+15.10.20151202-0ubuntu1 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.64-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.0.2-1ubuntu4 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.0.2-1ubuntu4 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu9.1 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.9.2-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.5.0+git20150819-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20150808-0ubuntu4 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.11-1ubuntu3 xserver.bootTime: Mon Feb 8 22:35:51 2016 xserver.configfile: /etc/X11/xorg.conf xserver.devices: xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.outputs: xserver.version: 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu9.1 ** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug ubuntu wayland-session wily -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1543307 Title: Improve "Your system is running in low-graphics mode" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1543307/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
