screen display

[Sam Salado]

my home and login screen looks like i had taken LSD vivid distorted colours. and just solid color on normal start-up.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-38.41-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-38-generic i686
.tmp.unity_support_test.1:

ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Mon Oct 22 18:54:19 2018
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV515/M54 [Mobility Radeon X1400] [1002:7145] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo Thinkpad T60 model 2007 [17aa:2006]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-13 (982 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417)
MachineType: LENOVO 200763U
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-38-generic root=UUID=010804b7-21f1-4e4e-a968-18ae8286fbf2 ro recovery nomodeset
Renderer: Software
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/01/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 79ETE6WW (2.26 )
dmi.board.name: 200763U
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr79ETE6WW(2.26):bd04/01/2010:svnLENOVO:pn200763U:pvrThinkPadT60:rvnLENOVO:rn200763U:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.family: ThinkPad T60
dmi.product.name: 200763U
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T60
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.13.1+18.04.20180302-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.91-2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~18.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~18.04.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.5-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2
xserver.bootTime: Mon Oct 22 17:23:51 2018
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

The radeon graphics driver is unable to work properly, probably because you are stuck in recovery mode where kernel mode setting has been disabled:

  [ 68.968] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-38-generic root=UUID=010804b7-21f1-4e4e-a968-18ae8286fbf2 ro recovery nomodeset

To fix this, please reboot and tap Escape immediately as soon as you see the first purple screen. Now navigate the menus and find the default kernel option that is not recovery mode.

When done, please confirm the correct change has been made by running:

  cat /proc/cmdline

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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