Unity desktop not loading

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 07:19 +0100, Colin Law wrote: 
> On 10 June 2011 23:40, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 16:14, Gerard Hodson <gerry2110 at gmx.com> wrote:
> >> All these specification exceed spec. I am booting Xubuntu, why am I having
> >> this problem?
> >
> > Ummm... because Xubuntu doesn't use Unity...
> 
> That would appear to be true, but in that case why did the OP get a
> warning after upgrading to 11.04 that he did not have the hardware
> capabilities to run Unity?

You would need accelerated graphics and OpenGL enabled to run Unity. You
would only get that with the correct driver installed. The OP didn't
mention his nvidia chipset though. I think it was the 5200 that was the
first nvidia chipset that supported GL ver 2.0 ? Someone correct me if
I'm wrong. So, maybe his chipset isn't recent enough and Unity diagnosed
that there was no hope, or there is a bug in need of becoming fixed.
Troubleshooting with a shotgun. I have no other clue. Ric


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