Nvidia Graphics Issue

[chribuntu]

Hello! This is my first post. Every few times I boot up I get an error saying it has booted into low-graphics mode. I usually restart the machine 2 times and it fixes the error. But it continues to come up. How do I fix this once and for all?

[papibe]

Hi chribuntu. Welcome to the forums

Did you install the Nvidia proprietary driver? If not, go to 'Drivers' and install the 'nvidia-current (recommended)'.

Then open a terminal, and run:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

And finally restart your computer.

Let us know how it goes.
Regards.

[leptone55]

hello,

I have a similar issue as the one described:

I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Macbook 5,2.

To solve it I followed this process http://www.howopensource.com/2012/10...-04-using-ppa/

When i rebooted the computer was only capable of booting into command line interface. It would boot, black screen, text moving across it then prompted for username and password. then command line.

I have since wiped everything and started over. I have an OSX partition with 10.8.2 and empty LINUX and SWAP partitions ready to go.

Looking at this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook has me worried as I only see links for MacBook5-2/Lucid and MacBook5-2/Mavrick. Can I put 12.10 or this MacBook and have it work? 12.04?

If so how do install the proper drivers. Is there a guide somewhere that I can't find for this software with this hardware?

Thank you.

MacBook 5,2
Intel Core 2 Duo
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256MB
OS X 10.8.2

[chribuntu]

Hi chribuntu. Welcome to the forums

Did you install the Nvidia proprietary driver? If not, go to 'Drivers' and install the 'nvidia-current (recommended)'.

Then open a terminal, and run:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

And finally restart your computer.

Let us know how it goes.
Regards.

Edit: I reboot several times and got the gui but unity won't load.

[papibe]

Could you post the content of this file?

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

Please paste the file here: paste.ubuntu.com, and post back the link to it.

Regards.

[chribuntu]

Here is the link http://paste.ubuntu.com/1601866/

[drunkenbrawler]

I had problem with Optimus on my Dell XPS 15-Z. My laptop used to run ubuntu in low graphics mode. I installed Bumblebee. Now everything is working fine.

http://bumblebee-project.org/install.html

[papibe]

Thanks.

It looks like the log is for one of those times that all went well as you are getting a resolution of 1280x1024. Is that OK?

Could you post the result of these command?

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga

Regards.

[chribuntu]

Here is the result of the command
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] [10de:03d6] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Device [1565:1405]
Kernel modules: nvidia_current, nvidia_173, nouveau, nvidiafb
By the way it has gotten worse when I boot into Ubuntu the screen is small and it says Input Signal out of Range