Unity desktop not loading

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 09:26 +0100, Colin Law wrote: 
> 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.

Urhhhmmm... I thought he stated that when the installation process
started that it warned him, via a pop-up notice, that it would not be
possible to use Unity, at all, and that was what we were discussing. 

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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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