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girishgargdce
September 22nd, 2010, 02:16 PM
Hi all ,
I am facing an issue at the the time of booting my system. it is in Dual boot(Windows XP + Ubuntu 10.04)
When I select Ubuntu , the following message is coming

Ubuntu is running in Low Graphics mode.
Your screen , graphics card ,and input setting could not be detected correctly. You need to configure these yourself.

When i start Ubuntu in low graphics mode , then show deskop icon is not there. Monitor is not detected.
System -> Preferences-> Windows showing error
(Cannot start the preferences application for your window manager
Failed to execute child process "obconf" (No such file or directory)

System -> Preferences-> Monitors
Monitor : Unknown

I am new to ubuntu. So please help me in this issue.
Thanks in advance.

Regards
Girish