Unity desktop not loading

[Colin Law]

On 11 June 2011 07:55, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Pay attention Ric :)  My question was why when he is booting into
Xubuntu that, after upgrade, it is warning him that he cannot use
Unity.  I see now though that the he has provided the answer in the
other thread that he started.  He says "I am booting from XUBUNTU but
use Gnome" by which he presumably means not that he is booting into
Xubuntu but that he *installed* Xubuntu but is *booting* into Gnome.
In that case it is logical that the upgrade should attempt to use
Unity.

Colin