Hardware Issues and 11.04 Beta

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Mark C. Miller <mmiller at eyore15.net> wrote:
> I wanted to get a look at Unity, so I upgraded a 10.10 machine to 11.04
> Beta.  It's an older IBM Thinkcenter P4 HT.  When the upgrade completed I
> received an error message that my hardware would not support unity.  I
> presume it's a graphic card issue.  I'm not smart enough to figure out how
> to get the nomenclature for the graphics card in the Thinkcenter.
>
> Is this just a beta issue or should I expect that I'm not going to be able
> to upgrade my machines anymore.
>
> I've only been with Ubuntu since 8.04, but every new version has installed
> easily and run perfectly.  I'd hate to think that won't be the case anymore.
>
> Has anyone else had this experience?  Is there a work-around short of buying
> new graphic cards and/or new machines?  Is this a known bug and being worked
> on for the final release?  Any comment/help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> mark c. miller

Have you checked in System / Administration / Additional Drivers if by
chance there is a driver for your graphic card that should be
installed?

L.

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Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Platform Implementation
System and Applications
GNU/Linux - Ubuntu