I have very similar problems but the video driver in use is xserver-
xorg-video-intel . In addition to "Ubuntu running in low-graphics mode"
error though all video is unusable--drop to command prompt, etc, produce
a few colored pixels on the virtual terminals but that's all. Recovery
mode boots are
I found the following workarounds:
During grub boot (or in /boot/grub/menu.lst) edit the kernel options to include
nosplash nomodeset
There is still an error during X startup but now the "Exit to console login"
works (consoles are no longer all black).
Also after exiting to the console, sometime
Following Martin's suggestion from Bug #490274 I added nomodeset to the
kernel command line and all was well with kernels 2.6.31-14 and
2.6.31-15. When I picked up the update to 2.6.31-16 today things broke
*worse*. It is still the case that booting without nomodeset and
invoking the KDE display se
Thanks for the prod. I have booted the kubuntu 10.4 beta 2 live image
and I do NOT observe the crash (which did occur when booting live
kubuntu 9.10 image). Since I use the installed system on this laptop for
critical work I can't really mess with it by upgrading to the 10.4 beta
2, but once th
After doing a dist-upgrade to kubuntu 10.04 on the affected laptop I
don't see this problem any more. I removed the nomodeset kernel
commandline switch and also removed nosplash. It comes up in a good
video mode and the display settings applet starts and runs fine.
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[i965gm] X server hard crash
Public bug reported:
I use wget to copy a web site from one server to another, adjusting file
suffixes and paths.
Since updating to 16.04 LTS from 14.04 the command that I used
previously has begun corrupting the destination site on second and
subsequent invocations.
The options relevant to the
