CFT: Unity 6.6

[Nicholas Skaggs]

Good catch! Sure, go ahead and open a bug for this. I *think* if you 
search around you may find one already reported, but if so, adding the 
information about it still being an issue is a good thing.

Nicholas

On 09/24/2012 07:15 AM, Fauzi wrote:
> Is there any bugs on battery indicator.
> the indicator should show half already but the icon still show full
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> On 09/24/2012 01:24 AM, chris hermansen wrote:
>> Nicholas, Charlie, list; just to conclude this discussion (from my end
>> at least):
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>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Nicholas Skaggs
>> <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> On 09/21/2012 02:31 PM, chris hermansen wrote:
>>>
>>> Back on the laptop, no more top posting.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Charlie Kravetz
>>> <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:07 PM, chris hermansen 
>>> <clhermansen at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Unity is not working on my older Toshiba A70, once I log in (This 
>>> machine
>>> automatically falls over to Unity-2d in 12.04 and prior).
>>>
>>> Right now I am staring at a nice royal blue screen. The touch pad 
>>> can move
>>> the cursor but that is about it. no decoration of any kind. no 
>>> response to
>>> right clicks.
>>>
>>> I can ctrl alt f1 into a terminal session.
>>>
>>> at the end of syslog i see warnings few gnome-session:
>>>
>>> WARNING: App 'compiz.desktop' respawning too quickly
>>> CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. sorry...
>>>
>>> not sure how to file a bug report for this.
>>>
>>> It's possible this machine has an old video card that is not supported
>>> by Unity. It has always fallen back to 2d, is it even 3d capable? Or,
>>> does Unity no longer require 3d capability?
>>>
>>> Charlie, this laptop ran Gnome 2 with compiz quite well as far as I
>>> could ever tell.
>>> All the 3d and shading stuff seemed to work fine.
>>>
>>> However, ever since Unity it has always fallen back to 2d.
>>>
>>> It seems to run 2d fine with Compiz replacing Metacity, right up to 
>>> 12.04.
>>>
>>> It is a Radeon IGP9100.
>>>
>>> I had read that this release of Unity was intended to work with 
>>> older cards
>>> due to some new middleware which I cannot now remember.
>>>
>>> Indeed, is seems like Charlie is correct in this case then. You 
>>> might just
>>> consider sticking with precise if you want to run unity (which btw, 
>>> isn't
>>> such a bad idea anyway :-) ). Obviously, if your able, keep checking 
>>> out how
>>> the newer releases handle on your laptop, but if it ran unity2d before,
>>> there was a reason it defaulted to it.
>> Booting into recovery mode, I do not get a unity session (or much of
>> anything, really - the screen is black, no mouse pointer).
>>
>> So for now I guess I cannot file any kind of bug report and will stick
>> with 12.04 or perhaps move to lubuntu.
>>
>> Thanks for the help and suggestions.
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