[Touch-packages] [Bug 1543307] Re: Improve "Your system is running in low-graphics mode"
[Expired for xorg (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1543307 Title: Improve "Your system is running in low-graphics mode" Status in xorg package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: 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: 3193WIN8 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:rvr3193WIN8STDMLT: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
[Touch-packages] [Bug 1543307] Re: Improve "Your system is running in low-graphics mode"
Karl-Philipp Richter, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. As per http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/Laptops-and- netbooks/IdeaPad-U-Series- laptops/IdeaPad-U410?linkTrack=GPS:Body_Search%20Products=true an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (65CN99WW). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything? For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette . Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't have to create a new bug report. Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible: 1) Please provide the output of the following terminal command (not perform an apport-collect): sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date 2) Please make a comment specifically advising on if there was an improvement or not. 3) Please mark this report Status New. If it's not reproducible, please mark this as Invalid. Thank you for your understanding. ** Tags added: bios-outdated-65cn99ww ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1543307 Title: Improve "Your system is running in low-graphics mode" Status in xorg package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: 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
