"Ubuntu is eunnung in low graphics mode" (EE) open /dev/fe0: No such file or dierctor

[popolvar]

Hello all,

let us start with the problem. After making and update my Karmic Koala and trying to set up lamp through tasksell, i have rebooted my notebook. Then the ubuntu logo was displayied and i get an

"Ubuntu is eunnung in low graphics mode"
(EE) open /dev/fe0: No such file or dierctory

i have done some googling and figured that it has most likely to do with ubuntu trying to using frame buffer wrongly. First I have tried to follow some advices posted at

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer#...ns%20in%20GRUB (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer#Setting%20different%20framebuffer%20re solutions%20in%20GRUB)

like this



"vga=normal", or "nofb", disables the framebuffer
if "nofb" does not help, try "nomodeset" to disable kernel mode setting
"vga=ask" will able you to set a value at each boot good for testing out the various modes.

non of them worked. Being unable to disable framebuffer i modified the grub2 (in fact it is 1.97~beta4), to use my true resolution. That didn't work out either

now i after editing the grub menu by pressing ''e'' i get

recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,5)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c763a81d-d00b-4880-9111-9c305affc67b
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=c763a81d-d00b-4880-9111-9c305affc67b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic

i have tried

'nomodeset'
'nofb'
'i915.modeset=0' at various places
remove 'quiet'
put the 'nosplash' 'nomodeset'

and i still get the error.

The /dev/fb0 is really not there, btw. I have tried to create it by

mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0

which creted the file but after reboot it is not there anymore

MAKEDEV didn't work.

i have also tried this workaround

cd /etc/init
sudo mv failsafe-x.conf failsafe-x.conf-disable
cd /etc/init.d
sudo mv failsafe-x failsafe-x-disable
but didn't work

Pleassse help

popolvar

[popolvar]

ok at the and of the it turned out that my xorg was broken

so i just had to run

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

it restored the desktop and left all of my data and apps intact (as far i can tell of course)

this one also get me rid of the error, but upon this the desktop gui mode didn't start at all and i had only the console

cd /etc/init
sudo mv failsafe-x.conf failsafe-x.conf-disable
cd /etc/init.d
sudo mv failsafe-x failsafe-x-disable

when trying to fix the problem also set the correct framebuffer(FB) size as described in

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=41881

post by jheaton5, but i doubt hat it had any relevance, as originally my FB was disabled