Fresh install of 11.04 beta 2 Unity problem

Unity runs on 3D acceleration. If you say that the driver is installed it should work. Did you do a search for more drivers or attempt to run the update manager from the ''classic desktop?''

Yes, I ran the Update manager and installed all updates. I had installed 11.04 Beta 2 just downloaded today.

When I go to System | Administration | Additional Drivers there are two NVIDIA drivers listed:

* NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recoimmended]
* Experimental 3D support for NVIDIA cards

I tried both ... still no Unity. It does take a minute or so on boot up to get to the login screen -- I am assuming that this is part of the problem.

I am dual booting this configuration with Windows and everything runs under windows just fine so I don't think there is any hardware problem.

Can you give the output of:

sudo uname -a; lsb_release -a; sudo lshw -C display; dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

One other piece of information - I installed 10.10, loaded updates via update manager, Activated the NVIDIA Rel 172 version of the video drivers through Administration > System > Additional Drivers ... and that seemed to give me 3D capabilities. That is, if I look at ScreenSavers, the 3D specific screen savers (GL*) worked. However, in the 11.04 installation, 3D ScreenSavers did not display anything. So I guess my point is that 3D acceleration for my hardware platform works with 10.10 but not with 11.04.

OUTPUT REQUESTED:
twa@TWA-MAIN-Ubuntu:~$ sudo uname -a; lsb_release -a; sudo lshw -C display; dpkg -l | grep nvidia
[sudo] password for twa:
Linux TWA-MAIN-Ubuntu 2.6.38-8-generic-pae #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 05:17:09 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G96 [GeForce 9500 GT]
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       resources: irq:24 memory:fd000000-fdffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:fa000000-fbffffff ioport:ec00(size=128) memory:fe980000-fe9fffff
ii nvidia-common 0.2.30 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-current 270.41.03-0ubuntu1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-settings 270.29-0ubuntu1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
twa@TWA-MAIN-Ubuntu:~$

Ok the driver isn't loading (as you can see). I suggest you run:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

And reboot, may help. If not then rename xorg.conf in root recovery mode and you'll be where you are now. I also suggest you log a bug

The GeForce 9500 GT video card has 2 DVI connectors but no VGA connectors. The results noted in this thread were done using a monitor which was connected to the computer via a VGA cable and a VGA to DVI adapter. When I replace this configuration with a DVI cable directly from the video card to the monitor, the driver does load along with Unity. With ubuntu 10.10 the driver would load properly with a VGA adapter and VGA monitor connected to the video card. But with ubuntu 11.04, you need a direct DVI cable to the monitor to get the driver to load (and enable Unity).