[Bug 614088] Re: unity should give an error to the user when not supported by the driver/graphic card

[Chris Young]

Hello! This is my first post about Ubuntu so please be nice! :-)

I've been using Ubuntu 10.04 (desktop & netbook) for quite some time now
with little to no issues with the user functionality. Last night I saw
the release candidate for 10.10 and did a few back flips lol, very
excited to see this rolling out. I installed the desktop version on a
new Dell Vostro 1710 and its running pretty smoothly. Now for the
Netbook I ran into the issue stated above.

Here's my bug/issue:

After the install of Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 (which ran with zero problems)
I got to the login screen, I selected Ubuntu Netbook Edition and logged
in. Once I do the error "No required driver detected for unity. (you
will need to choose the Ubuntu Desktop session once you select your user
name)". I press ok and of course it logs in just fine to the Ubuntu
Desktop. But as seeing this is an old laptop and I installed this
netbook version solely for the easy user interface, I'm rather sad this
doesn't work.

(I have attached my laptop specs)

Will unity not support older graphic cards? I used the netbook version
10.04 on here and it ran with zero issues. I think that we should be
able to use Unity without all the fancy 3d settings. I install ubuntu
netbook on quite a bit of older laptops because it runs so smoothly and
is super simple to use. I'm not sure if i missed a fix, or if there is a
place I can go to get this fixed but any additional info on it would be
great.

Thanks a million in advance and keep up the good work, there are many
people i'm slowing converting to Ubuntu so we can.. for once.. live in a
windozz free world.



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unity should give an error to the user when not supported by the driver/graphic card
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/614088
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