How can I go back to Ubuntu classic from Unity in 11.10.

[J]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 05:30, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 19 October 2011 07:47, Ken Adams <adams.ken.j at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This I NEED.. All my hardware cannot run unity. No 3D lower graphics
>> memory etc etc etc. I have always used and will always use older
>> hardware. Why should I go back to the microsoft ethos and upgrade my
>> hardware whenevr the OS ha got too bloated.
>
> On the login screen click the wheel above the password field and
> select 2D, then login, that should work fine with old hardware.

Additionally, if 3D is not supported, Ubuntu should default to Unity
2D anyway...

You can check this by opening a terminal and grepping for unity-2d

ps axf | grep -i unity-2d

if you're running 2d, you'll see things like unity-2d-panel.