Unity gone after installing Nvidia driver on 12.10
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 12:03:56AM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> Hi, > I got the Thinkpad T430s with the Nvidia Optimus graphics card today > and first thing I tried to do was install the latest 12.10 beta on it. > Everything came up fine but I noticed that the graphics card was > defaulting to Unknown so I installed the latest Nvidia driver from the > repository. Upon restart I was able to log into my desktop but found > that Unity is now gone. No Unity, Launcher, or Dash. Looking at the > Xorg.0.log I don't see the Nvidia driver loading, just the Intel driver > as before but Unity as a whole is gone. > Any ideas? > Avi Perhaps, you have changed video card in BIOS/EFI? Try explicitly point Intel or Optimus, not both in BIOS/EFI. -- Murat D. Kadirov PGP fingerprint: 3081 EBFA 5CB9 BD24 4DB6 76EE 1B97 0A0E CEC0 6AA0 -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
Unity gone after installing Nvidia driver on 12.10
Yes, I tried this but it made no difference. It seems to me that
installing the Nvidia driver changed some configuration that causes Unity to stop working. I also ran the compiz manager to make sure that the Unity plugin is enabled. Avi On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 11:56:08 +0600, "Murat D. Kadirov" <md.kadirov@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 12:03:56AM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: >> Hi, >> I got the Thinkpad T430s with the Nvidia Optimus graphics card today >> and first thing I tried to do was install the latest 12.10 beta on it. >> Everything came up fine but I noticed that the graphics card was >> defaulting to Unknown so I installed the latest Nvidia driver from the >> repository. Upon restart I was able to log into my desktop but found >> that Unity is now gone. No Unity, Launcher, or Dash. Looking at the >> Xorg.0.log I don't see the Nvidia driver loading, just the Intel >> driver >> as before but Unity as a whole is gone. >> Any ideas? >> Avi > > Perhaps, you have changed video card in BIOS/EFI? Try explicitly point > Intel or Optimus, not both in BIOS/EFI. -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
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