Video problems with Unity on older laptop

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 09:19 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:

> I'm tempted to install Maverick to see if that makes any difference
> (though I'm not entirely sure how it would), but I was wondering if
> anyone had hit this already and resolved it.
> 
> I found one article using Google that indicates it may be a bad video
> card courtesy of HP, but that wouldn't explain why it works so nicely
> in Windows.
> 
> Input welcome.  Thanks.

With client's new laptop:

Installed 10.10, recommended nvidia driver set. No issues.
Compiz, Emerald, all the bits and bobs. VLC and Totem (hate) and Xine
and MPlayer run like champs. Better than under Windows7. Openshot as
well.

Just stating the facts.

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