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[Colin Law]

On 11 June 2011 20:02, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

>From his original post
> 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.

Colin