Unity desktop not loading

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/06/11 18:26, 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.
>
> Colin

Ummmm, Colin, what *were* those meds you took 15 minutes ago? :-D .

Everyone knows that Unity only comes up with such an error message when 
you boot while you have your toaster plugged into the USB port. Sheesh! 
AND *only* if you don't the correct driver for the toaster. If there is 
a correct driver for the toaster then it boots into KDE (which keeps 
Ric, with his pulse-ophilia, happy :-) ).

BC

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