[DC LoCo] Recent 10.04 LTS Observations - ONLY

[Mackenzie Morgan]

Unity 2D isn't part of a default install.  You're gettin' ahead o'
yourself! Unity-2D will replace classic GNOME in 11.10.

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 2:47 PM, N.C. Weber <ncweber00 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Actually, it should switch to 2D Unity if there's no 3D support.
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> From: Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com>
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> Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 14:42:03
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> Subject: Re: [DC LoCo] Recent 10.04 LTS Observations - ONLY
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> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I tried to use Ubuntu 11.04 and had major issues.  I could see the
>> wallpaper, but nothing of the desktop UI.  Graphic elements of the
>> desktop randomly flickered in and our too quickly for me to see what
>> was on them.  In general, it was unusable.  The loading splash screens
>> were also heavily corrected with white lines of what looked like ASCII
>> text.  I tried Kubuntu and Lubuntu 11.04 and had similar issues with
>> the splash screens.
>>
>> GPU: 8x AGP Nvidia Geforce FX 5600 w/512MB DDR
>>
>> I did not get an error message saying my hardware could not run Unity.
>
> Have you installed the Nvidia drivers yet?  If not, I'd log into
> classic GNOME instead of Unity and install them through there, then
> try Unity.  I don't think it gives any such messages at all.  It
> should just revert to classic GNOME if there's no 3D support, but
> maybe you have one of the few Nvidia cards that has
> semi-existent-but-not-good-yet 3D support in Nouveau?
>
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