Unity desktop not loading

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 15:44 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote: 
> On 11/06/11 18:11, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 02:55 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> >
> >>> 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
> > Why in the heck would such a minimalistic, "mobile phone" style
> > interface even require THAT MUCH when it delivers THAT LITTLE? Where is
> > the mentality behind such silliness? Is it that the corporate's and
> > developers all own mobile phones (iPhones, HTC's and Galaxy's) and
> > they're thinking with their phones instead of their "desktop" minds?
> > Jeesh...c'mon...wake the farg up...

Because without OpenGL version 2.0, and accelerated graphics, you can't
see the ~sparkles~ on the pink unicorn style icons. Good Gwar, man!
Ubuntu would be the laughing stock. <shakes head> Ric


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