Installed 11.04 on new hardware; no unity. What does it take?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 04:04:07PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I just re-kitted a broken system with a new mainboard and video.  I
> installed a fresh Natty, expecting it to come up in Unity.  However, it
> said my system did not support Unity and gave me gnome.  What's up with
> that?
> 
> The mainboard runs 4-core AMD at 3.6 GHz, with 8 GB RAM.
> Video card has 512MB cache.

(Nitpick: video memory is not usually called 'cache').

> What other specifics do I need to know to figure this out?

The vendor and model of your video card.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
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hang yourself.  And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.
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