[Bug 614088] Re: unity should give an error to the user when not supported by the driver/graphic card

[Mark Shuttleworth]

 On 01/10/10 02:38, Chris Young wrote:
> Hello! This is my first post about Ubuntu so please be nice! :-)

We try always to be nice, you can raise a bug if we're not :-)


> But as seeing this is an old laptop and I installed this
> netbook version solely for the easy user interface, I'm rather sad this
> doesn't work.
>
> (I have attached my laptop specs)
>
> Will unity not support older graphic cards? I used the netbook version
> 10.04 on here and it ran with zero issues. I think that we should be
> able to use Unity without all the fancy 3d settings.

The new Unity interface exercises more of the 3D capabilities of the
hardware than the old one. And unfortunately, in a couple of cases, the
drivers of some hardware (not necessarily even older hardware) on Linux
don't support all the features of the hardware.

We'll work on a 2D version of Unity, which will be an option for you in
the next release. But we're also helping folks improve their 3D drivers,
so your laptop might actually work with the 3D version in 11.04.

Mark

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unity should give an error to the user when not supported by the driver/graphic card
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/614088
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