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When i installed Ubuntu i received a statement saying that I did not thae the nessessary hardware going to classic mode

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When i installed Ubuntu i received a statement saying that I did not thae the nessessary hardware going to classic mode.

What are the two modes and what hardware do i need to get the other mode?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a

Thanks

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Neil (goofandfroggie) said : 		#2

hi
If you update your graphic drivers it should fix the problem.
go to system + administration + additional drivers.
follow the prompts.
should be all good after that.
Neil

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doc-zizo (dr-z) said : 		#3

I have the same problem and the output of
sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a
is

*-display
   description: VGA compatible controller
   product: Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
   vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
   physical id: 0
   bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
   version: 00
   width: 32 bits
   clock: 33MHz
   capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
   configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
   resources: irq:49 memory:80000000-87ffffff ioport::6000(size=256) memory:8
8020000-8802ffff memory-88000000-8801ffff

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