Ubuntu :: No Unit Desktop After Upgrading From 10 To 11.04?
May 3, 2011
When I was using Ubunutu 10, I updated the ATI drivers from their web site and the installation failed. There is no uninstall for it that actually works. So, very annoyed, I switched to the VESA driver by editing xorg.conf as shown below.
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 10 to 11.04 and when it booted up it told me that I do not have hardware to run the Unity desktop. Even on a restart the login menu shows the selected desktop as "Ubuntu" (no classic or anything though my desktop looks just like it did in Ubuntu 10).
After upgrading to Ubuntu 11 it seems to have switched to a proprietary ATI graphics driver which actually seems to work very well. Except, no Unity desktop.
If I click System, Administration, Additional drivers it shows one driver and says that it is enabled and in use. The driver is "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver" and in the description it says "3D-accelerated proprietary graphics driver for ATI cards".
Is there a way to explicitly turn on Unity or ask it why it doesnt want to run?
lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5670]
$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
Segmentation fault
I do not really care which driver I use. I have been told there is a new driver included in Ubuntu 11 that supports my video card. Is that the driver I listed above or is thee another that I can activate somehow. What shall I do? I just want Unity to work.
Try disable this driver? Will it automatically pick up some default? Do I have to delete or do something to xorg.conf as well?
Is there a way to tell Ubuntu "forget whatever video card driver or configuration is in place and go back to the default for a new install"? I have tried "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" but all it does is ask for a password and then does nothing. Everyone says to run this buts its never done anything for me.
/etc/X11$ cat xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier"Configured Video Device"
Driver"vesa"
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I have been looking for information on how to ensure these are so for CentOS and Ubuntu, but can't seem to find anything at all. I want to be able to check these things and change them if needed. The actual hardware involved is very modest. The point is to get the most out of what hardware we do have, even though it's "not very serious hardware" from a broader perspective.
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the ssh server was already installed, i changed the service setting to that it starts automatically but after i succesfully connected to the LAN, i cannot access the shh via putty for instance. when i type "service sshd status" it says beside other things: active (running). but when i look at the /var/log/messages, it says those two lines:
sshd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255 Unit sshd.service entered failed state.
i searched on google without success, the only thing i found was that someone had the same problem with a bad sshd_config file, but i'm pretty sure that everything is alright with my config-file (i checked it several times).
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apt-get --purge remove ubuntu-desktop Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Package ubuntu-desktop is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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