Unity desktop not loading

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Friday 10 June 2011 22:14:20 Gerard Hodson wrote:
> After upgrading to 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) the first notice from the system
> (after restart) was that I had not the hardware to run Unity. Processor:
> AMD Sempron 2800+ (1.6 GHz)
>  Memory: 873 MiB
>  Harddrive: 160 GBytes (14% used)
>  Multimedia card: Nvidia (adequate)
>  All these specification exceed spec. I am booting Xubuntu, why am I having
> this problem?


What Nvidia? Most probably your card is not supported with the 3D driver, so 
Unity can't run. _IF_ you can install the Nvidia driver, you should be able to 
run Unity.

Thierry