Unity Desktop not loading

Tony Pursell ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk
Fri Jun 10 23:13:28 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:21 +0200, G.M.Hodson wrote:
> After upgrading to 11.04 the first notice I received on restart was
> 'insufficient hardware to run Unity Desktop' (or words to that effect)
> My processor is AMD Sempron 2800+ running at 1.6Ghz, I have 873 MiB of
> RAM, my multimedia card is NVIDIA & I have a 163 GiB harddrive of which
> 14% is used. I am booting from XUBUNTU but use Gnome, What can I do to
> get Unity to load? I appreciate the biannual Upgrades from Ubuntu but I
> would like to enjoy full use.
> 
> 

The following command, run in a terminal, will give more information

/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

It's the same command that is used to give you the 'insufficent
hardware...' message,

Tony







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