I have an Ace notebook with Ubuntu 11.04 on it, both Unity and Gnome work fine on it but when I've tried to install 11.04 on some of my desktops (mainly HPs) I've consistently received a message saying Unity will not function properly and I have to use Ubuntu Classic. Does anybody know how to get Unity to work on ay Linux compatible desktop?

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On 4 August 2011 17:49, Graham Stacy <gleestacy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have an Ace notebook with Ubuntu 11.04 on it, both Unity and Gnome work fine on it but when I've tried to install 11.04 on some of my desktops (mainly HPs) I've consistently received a message saying Unity will not function properly and I have to use Ubuntu Classic. Does anybody know how to get Unity to work on ay Linux compatible desktop?

Unity requires 3D capable graphics hardware (whatever that is). If
your hardware does not provide this then install unity-2d.
sudo apt-get install unity-2d

Hopefully eventually the system will automatically fall back to the 2d
version if the hardware requires it.

Colin

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On 4 August 2011 18:14, Colin Law <clanlaw@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> Hopefully eventually the system will automatically fall back to the 2d
> version if the hardware requires it.

This is what 11.10 will do.


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On 4 August 2011 18:59, Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 August 2011 18:14, Colin Law <clanlaw@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hopefully eventually the system will automatically fall back to the 2d
>> version if the hardware requires it.
>
> This is what 11.10 will do.

That is good to know, I will be trying it when it gets to Beta release.
I hope it falls back on the fly, my laptop hardware supports 3d when
used with its built in display, but when second monitor is plugged in
the virtual desktop is too large and it must fall back to 2d.

Colin

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On 04/08/11 14:03, Colin Law wrote:
> That is good to know, I will be trying it when it gets to Beta release.
> I hope it falls back on the fly, my laptop hardware supports 3d when
> used with its built in display, but when second monitor is plugged in
> the virtual desktop is too large and it must fall back to 2d.

That would pretty legit w/ ultra-conservative switchable graphics too.

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