Unity: Nothing can go wrong!

[Michael Haney]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> On 04/17/2011 07:27 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> I appologize.....I said "3" but it isn't....current Gnome. I can't find any
>> option for
>> a Unity startup....no options at all. The image is the 64-bit iso from the
>> Ubuntu site. The
>> file name is: ubuntu-11.04-beta2-desktop-amd64.iso
>
> It doesn't and you didn't get GNOME 3. You got GNOME 2.
>
> Unity requires 3D compositing. They are working on a separate 2D
> version but it's not ready yet.
>
> The way it works is meant to be this:
>
>  - if you have hardware 3D, you get Unity;
>  - if you don't, you get GNOME 2.
>
> No, I don't think that's correct. The disk doesn't have the new nVidia
> drivers so you can't get Unity.
>

Ubuntu can install updates from the repos during installation.  When
it does hardware detection during the install process why couldn't it
install the driver then and there during the main installation
process?  So when you get to the desktop, you've got Unity if you have
3D hardware, or Gnome 2 if you don't.


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