First impressions of 11.04

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Saturday 30 April 2011 08:03:21 pm Alan Pope wrote:
> On 25 April 2011 23:05, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon at decoulon.ch> wrote:
> > So I can confirm that Gnome 2 is there, because it's what Natty starts
> > when it can't start Unity. So far I can't say much to unity, but Natty is
> > crappy at the moment, at least if you still use a Geforce 7300GS....
>
> I'm using Natty/Unity on a similar generation device.
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce
> 7900 GT/GTO] (rev a1)
>
> Cheers,
> Al.

From 
http://askubuntu.com/questions/37629/geforce-go-7300-7400-blacklisted-can-i-still-run-unity:

We blacklisted Geforce Go 7300/7400 because of some freezes at startup with 
the "nvidia-current" driver.

It seems that unity 3D can run with the "nvidia 173" driver with those card. 
However, you will get some slowness, you are warned!

So, to workaround the detection at startup, you can:
sudo nano /etc/environment
add: UNITY_FORCE_START=1
Save the file with Ctrl+S
reboot

Ensure you are choosing the "ubuntu" session in gdm (default). This will 
bypass the detection and try to start unity 3D.

So it seems a 7900 working doesn't mean a 7300 will.

Honnestly, I can't find anything in Unity that would make me go through this 
just to get it. Maverick running very well here, and looks like it can do it 
for (at least) six other month.

Not clear either if these feezes concerne Unity only, but as far as I can say 
I could not get the Nvidia drivers to work.

Thierry