Re: Unity

You may need to install the binary nvidia drivers - go system -
administration - hardware drivers to see if there are any
proprietary/binary drivers to install - this is common for nVidia and
ATI graphics and some wireless cards. This should enable 2D and 3D
graphics acceleration for gaming, video playback and desktop effects.

Cheers,

Rene

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Chris Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interesting. Perhaps it just doesnt like/recognize my graphics card well
> enough.
>
> I'm installing it on an old Acer lappy (to replace a broken vista install
> for a client) at the moment.
> The liveCD came up ok with unity so I'm presuming the install will work ok
> as well.
>
> chris
>
>
> On 05/05/11 10:15, Rene Bartosh wrote:
>>
>> I just installed it on my netbook - only has intergrated Intel
>> graphics but it loads unity by default. It actually works quite well
>> due to the limited screen real estate (1024x600). It is a bit laggy,
>> as expected due to the underpowered graphics and CPU.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rene
>>
>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Chris Morris<[email protected]>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Just tried to run a liveCD of Natty64 on this machine - seems I dont have
>>> sufficient graphics power (GF7600/512mb/dua-lDVI) to run the unity side
>>> of
>>> things..
>>> Well that's the decision made then - Gnome it is :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/05/11 16:46, Erin Drummond wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am using it right now and I don't find it too bad. It would take a
>>>> bit of getting used to if you aren't used to using an OSX-style doc
>>>> and menus, but I dont find it slower to use. I actually prefer the
>>>> extra screen real estate and I find moving my mouse to the edge of the
>>>> screen to launch or focus any of my applications quite intuitive. I of
>>>> course added my most commonly used applications to the sidebar so I
>>>> could easily launch them without sifting through menus. I also like
>>>> the search feature for launching applications, since I often forget
>>>> which of the gnome menus an application is in.
>>>>
>>>> Unity also handles switching between multiple and single monitors much
>>>> better than classic gnome (in classic, if you add a panel to your
>>>> second screen so you can have a taskbar for windows on that screen, as
>>>> soon as you unplug the screen that extra panel moves to the first
>>>> screen. in Unity, it handles it all for you and you dont even need to
>>>> add the extra panel to start with). I like this feature because I have
>>>> a laptop which has an extra monitor attached at work, but not at home.
>>>>
>>>> I havn't tried the new gnome 3 shell though, although reports on the
>>>> internet say people like it better than Unity, so you could give that
>>>> a try
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