Nicholas, Charlie, list; just to conclude this discussion (from my end at least):
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.ska...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 09/21/2012 02:31 PM, chris hermansen wrote: > > Back on the laptop, no more top posting. > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Charlie Kravetz > <c...@teamcharliesangels.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:07 PM, chris hermansen <clherman...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Unity is not working on my older Toshiba A70, once I log in (This machine > automatically falls over to Unity-2d in 12.04 and prior). > > Right now I am staring at a nice royal blue screen. The touch pad can move > the cursor but that is about it. no decoration of any kind. no response to > right clicks. > > I can ctrl alt f1 into a terminal session. > > at the end of syslog i see warnings few gnome-session: > > WARNING: App 'compiz.desktop' respawning too quickly > CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. sorry... > > not sure how to file a bug report for this. > > It's possible this machine has an old video card that is not supported > by Unity. It has always fallen back to 2d, is it even 3d capable? Or, > does Unity no longer require 3d capability? > > Charlie, this laptop ran Gnome 2 with compiz quite well as far as I > could ever tell. > All the 3d and shading stuff seemed to work fine. > > However, ever since Unity it has always fallen back to 2d. > > It seems to run 2d fine with Compiz replacing Metacity, right up to 12.04. > > It is a Radeon IGP9100. > > I had read that this release of Unity was intended to work with older cards > due to some new middleware which I cannot now remember. > > Indeed, is seems like Charlie is correct in this case then. You might just > consider sticking with precise if you want to run unity (which btw, isn't > such a bad idea anyway :-) ). Obviously, if your able, keep checking out how > the newer releases handle on your laptop, but if it ran unity2d before, > there was a reason it defaulted to it. Booting into recovery mode, I do not get a unity session (or much of anything, really - the screen is black, no mouse pointer). So for now I guess I cannot file any kind of bug report and will stick with 12.04 or perhaps move to lubuntu. Thanks for the help and suggestions. -- Chris Hermansen · clherman...@gmail.com C'est ma façon de parler. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa