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Confusion on unity requirements

Asked by Aritchie

I wonder if you could clear up some confusion for me. I have this dell laptop that I am running Ubuntu 11.04 beta 1 and it will run compiz just fine under Ubuntu Classic but when I try to run Ubuntu it tells me that appears I don't have the necessary hardware to run unity and it defaults to Ubuntu Classic. I thought if the system could handle compiz it could run unity. I guess there must be something in the find print I missed. The laptop is a Dell Latitude D600 with an ATI Mobile Radeon 9000 chipset and it runs compiz and the various plugins just fine. I guess I will have to install Unity-2d.

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Sebastian Rühl (sebastian-ruehl) said : 		#1

Its due to the requirement of OpenGL as Far as I know. Unity needs at least OpenGL 1.4 support and the 9000 doesn't seems to support these.

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Sebastian Rühl (sebastian-ruehl) said : 		#2

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/UnityHardwareRequirements

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Michael Hazell (techman-) said : 		#3

Unity 2D is your only option, as your hardware is appearing to not support Unity 3d, like my ATI chipset.

If not, you have to stick with the gnome-panel.

If you can't get gnome, paste the following command into a terminal.

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel

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