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

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> 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').

Sorry.  Video details are not something I usually think about.  I just
told the store to give me something that would work with my new mobo.
I was reconstructing this from memory of what the store owner said to
me.

>
>> What other specifics do I need to know to figure this out?
>
> The vendor and model of your video card.

It turns out to be an MSI FUZION, with 512MB memory.
>
> Marius Gedminas

I should clarify -- it's not that I want Unity.  I don't.  I was just
surprised it did not come up that way.
After many decades of new whiz-bang features, I'm burned out.  I just
want to do my stuff using the widgets, gestures and capabilities I've
learned to use.  I certainly don't want to be wasting processing power
on creating weird visual effects.

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD