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    Failsafe graphics mode

    I have quite the peculiar problem here: Whenever I boot into ubuntu I do not have any internet access and it runs painfully slow. However when I boot into the failsafe graphics mode under the recovery boot option everything runs fine and dandy. Naturally I thought this would indicate a graphics issue, but the fact that I have internet in failsafe mode is confusing me.

    Running ubuntu 10.04 x86 on an emachines T5216

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    Re: Failsafe graphics mode

    It would help if you gave us some hardware info, especially what graphics chip set.

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    Re: Failsafe graphics mode

    it's running an ATI Radeon Xpress 200, Intel Pentium D 805 / 2.66 GHz, 2 GB DDR2.

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    Re: Failsafe graphics mode

    Try hitting alt+f2 type gtk-jockey and see if theres any available drivers for your card.
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    Re: Failsafe graphics mode

    ^tried that and it didn't find any drivers.

    also sometimes when i boot ubuntu without failsafe mode i seem to lose the USB peripherals (mouse and keyboard stop responding) about 15-20 seconds in.

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    Re: Failsafe graphics mode

    Hold down Shift while booting to get to grub. Press 'e' and replace "quiet splash" with "nomodeset". Ctrl+x to boot. If that doesn't do anything, replace it with "noapic" instead.

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    Re: Failsafe graphics mode

    Quote Originally Posted by Catharsis View Post
    If that doesn't do anything, replace it with "noapic" instead.
    that seemed to do the trick..here is how i changed it to boot with apic disable (for anyone else with a similar issue)

    i ran:
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    sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
    and i found the line:
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    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
    and i changed it to:
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    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash noapic"
    finally i ran:
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    sudo update-grub
    that seemed to fix my issue and boot ubuntu with apic disabled.


    thank you for the help!
    Last edited by Kid A; May 27th, 2010 at 05:40 PM.

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    Talking Re: Failsafe graphics mode

    Quote Originally Posted by Catharsis View Post
    Hold down Shift while booting to get to grub. Press 'e' and replace "quiet splash" with "nomodeset". Ctrl+x to boot. If that doesn't do anything, replace it with "noapic" instead.
    Im sorry that this thread is suuuper old but it solved my problem!

    I was having issues getting past checking battery after a fresh install of 11.10 but i entered nomodeset in grub and it worked

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