Ubuntu Installation :: No UNITY In 11.04 With ATI Video Hardware?
May 5, 2011
Upgraded yesterday from 10.10 to 11.04, UNITY issues with the PC. The "Ubuntu Classic" option at login works fine.
The symptoms when attempting to use UNITY are:
1) after login, I see desktop background image
2) mouse works, context menu I can pull up has "Create Folder", "Create Launcher" ...etc
3) keyboard works, ie, CTL-ALT-T brings up terminal, I can type away
4) desktop shows no toolbars, no menubars, no dash, nothing UNITY related
Running unity_support_test (output below) reveals it is a PASS for UNITY support:
$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV515
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2
[Code].....
Also, System->Administration->"Additional Drivers" shows "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system", and there are no selections available to me in that dialog box.
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Oct 21, 2010
This weekend, I'll rebuild a broken Windows Vista laptop installation for a friend. I would like to use Ubuntu. My friend only needs web and email, but everything must be easy: user-friendly, not "technical". The full Ubuntu desktop is not workable for her. She finds it too geeky, too complicated. She is not technical, and she only uses her computer for a few minutes each week.
10.10 Netbook sounds perfect (based on good experiences of 10.04). But when installing 10.10 Netbook, the system reports "No Required Driver For Unity", and starts with the full Desktop GUI, not the Netbook GUI. This happens on machines that worked perfectly with 10.04 Netbook.
OK, you can't have a 3D GUI without 3D hardware acceleration. But is there a way to enable the Netbook menus in a 2D style? Similar to 10.04, but with the updated look, and the updated applications?
The Netbook Edition looks like a great way for mainstream Windows users to upgrade to Ubuntu. But this experience must not be limited to rich people with new hardware. Surely, Ubuntu's hardware requirements don't exceed those of Windows?
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I have an Asus/Intel setup with integrated graphics that has been running Unity no problem for a while. I temporarily installed a separate NVidia card to do some hardware compatibility testing for another system that apparently couldn't hack it for Unity and forced it back to Classic. With the Nvidia card removed and going back to the integrated video setup I can't seem to get Unity running again. At the login I've toggled back and forth between Ubuntu (Unity) and Classic to no avail. Is there some way to reactivate it?
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Apr 29, 2011
I'm trying to test out Natty to see if I want to run with Unity. I'm not interested in wiping my production machine just to play with it. So this will be a VM install only for now.
So far, not a single alpha or beta nor even the final allows me to run unity. My hardware is perfectly capable (allegedly) of running Unity. The machine is only 6 months old.
I tried the Unity test script in Natty, and it tells me "no" but it also is telling me the wrong video card info. (apparently it is reading virtual hardware, not the real thing)
So how do I get VMWare Player to report or use my actual hardware, or for Natty to "see" the real card? Is this possible? If not, how in the world does ANYONE test Unity without actually installing it on a gamble? (note, a liveCD won't work because with an nVidia card, I have to install proprietary drivers which require a restart - Chicken, meet Egg.)
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May 8, 2011
Just moved to Ubuntu 11.04 with unity and only have one problem...For most of my desktop needs I prefer to have the Unity Launcher up all the time (fullscreen apps don't cover it), and have set this option with ccsm.
However, when I watch mythtv, it is also under the launcher (and the top panel as well). How can I force mythtv to cover the launcher?
What I really need is a keyboard shortcut to hide the launcher, but the only shortcut is for "show launcher". (I guess the devs assumed everyone would want it hidden by default).
This, by the way is not my usual way for viewing mythtv. I have a projector attached to the desktop PC and it doesn't get a Unity Launcher by default (in Twinview), so no probs. However, occasionally I want to watch something on my computer screen, and that is when this issue arises.
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Since there is a wrong reference in the doc
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...cs/+bug/773427
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I realise 11.04 is only just out, but is this a known problem? and is there a fix? code...
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I have installed 11.4 with almost no problems. I cannot seem to get Unity to work. error states that I don't have the proper hardware? I have a new Toshiba Satellite laptop. I downloaded and installed the 11.4 x64 desktop version. should the laptop and the desktop be same? or is there a laptop version?
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After some searching I have managed to get the stylus buttons to work - setting button closest to the tip as leftclick and the other as rightclick.The clicking works as expected inside applications, and when the applications menu-bar is on a line of its own - not on the same line as close, minimise, maximise, tray-icons, shutdown... In applications where the menu is moved up on the same line as close/minimise/maximise.the clicking must be done by click-hold - if I click-release the menu would go away.So that is problem number 1. Not sure if it is Maximus that is creating the top panel?
Next, the even bigger problem:The leftside icons menu introduced with UNE 10.10 is not behaving well with my stylus.Sometimes the very first tap/click on an icon launches that application. Subsequent taps/clicks on ANY icon does nothing. Only nudges the icon,scrolls the bar slightly or nothing at all.Other times not even the first tap/click launches anything. This makes the OS and my tablet utterly useless After getting the stylus buttons to work, rightclicks actually works on the icon-bar (unity?), bringing up the menu with name and Remove from Launcher options. But it does not respond to taps or leftclicks - other than making the rightclick-menu disappear.NOTE: the icons-bar and menus work as they should using an external mouse, so the problem must be related to the wacom stylus.
Here is some values from xsetwacom:
kris@kris-st6012:~$ xsetwacom --get "Serial Wacom Tablet" TPCButton
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