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[Bug 1543307] [NEW] Improve "Your system is running in low-graphics mode"
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
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Title:
Improve "Your system is running in low-graphics mode"
Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
New
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: 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
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