[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2014-07-24 Thread TreviƱo
** Changed in: unity Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: unity Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2014-01-03 Thread Rick Harris
I've been bitten by this also on a new install, exhibiting exactly the same blank desktop with no icons, side launcher or top panel. My gfx hardware is an Intel 855GM (not an 865 but is of the same generation chipset). The OpenGL failure (Root visual is not a GL visual) and the resulting compiz o

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-03 Thread Stephen M. Webb
The mesa OpenGL driver is claiming OpenGL 2.1 is supported. The Xorg driver is not creating the default X visual with OpenGL support. That means one of two things: (1) It's possible to configure Xorg to provide a GL-enabled visual as the default root visual, somehow, or (2) The Xorg driver for

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-03 Thread Colin Law
So that I understand, is the difference in unity-support-test between 11.04 and Saucy due to the fact that llvmpipe is (correctly) being used, so now GL1.4 /is/ supported (via s/w rendering)? Also is it that glXGetConfig should actually return true, again because llvmpipe is in use? Do we need

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-03 Thread Christopher Townsend
Ok, well, it is trying to use llvmpipe. A fairly recent change in Nux handles this now (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity- team/nux/trunk/revision/810#debian/50_check_unity_support). Looking at the gnome-session.log, the failure is occurring when the open plugin is asking if the X session suppo

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-03 Thread Colin Law
I have booted off a live Ubuntu 11.04 image and, with this old version of unity-support-test get $ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G x86/MMX/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.11 Not software rende

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-03 Thread Colin Law
$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.3, 128 bits) OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.2.0 Not software rendered:no Not blacklisted: yes GLX fbconfig: yes GLX texture from pixmap: y

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-02 Thread Christopher Townsend
Hi Colin, The Compiz opengl plugin is not loading, which is obvious:) So I've been thinking about why it's not loading on your machine. The "old hardware" in the bug title got me wondering what type of graphics hardware is in the system. I just now noticed that you wrote that you have Intel 865

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-02 Thread Colin Law
This is a clean install as of this morning, specifically to investigate this problem, so whatever the problem is it has been there since install time. I installed ccsm and found that the Unity plugin is disabled. I enabled it and it said it needed OpenGL plugin, the Scale plugin and the Expo plug

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-02 Thread Stephen M. Webb
Looking at the gnome-session.log file it appears there were problems with OpenGL support in X at some point. That seems to have disabled the OpenGL compiz plugin. I'd suggest running the Compiz Configuration Settings Manager (ccsm) and unselecting the Unity plugin (if it's checked) and the re-sel

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-02 Thread Colin Law
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1212821 Title: Unity fails to load on

Re: [Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-02 Thread Colin Law
Running /usr/bin/unity gives very similar output, but not identical so attaching unity.txt containing this. Also attached gnome-session.log which does have errors. I am also seeing a very strange problem on the machine where I cannot login unless I have connected via an ssh shell before trying to

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-02 Thread Stephen M. Webb
The log file you're looking for here is ~/.cache/upstart/gnome- session.log. Please check for that and attach it to this bug. Running "compiz --replace" from the terminal will not necessarily start Unity. You are better off running /usr/bin/unity to restart unity so the correct configuration wil

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-02 Thread Colin Law
Right, things have moved on. With the latest updates I am no longer getting the unity-support-test crash, so presumably something has been fixed there. I still don't get the launcher or panel in Unity, just the wallpaper as before. I still can't see anything interesting in any of the logs. H

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-02 Thread Colin Law
Right, things have moved on. With the latest updates I am no longer getting the unity-support-test crash, so presumably something has been fixed there. I still don't get the launcher or panel in Unity, just the wallpaper as before. I still can't see anything interesting in any of the logs. H

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-01 Thread Stephen M. Webb
Yeah, it's very unfortunate that apport incorrectly marks bugs as dups and removes the traceback information before a developer gets a chance to look. It really sounds like a problem when running unity-support-test during the boot sequence, and the fingers generally point to a bug in the OpenGL dr

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1212821] Re: Unity fails to load on old hardware on Saucy

2013-10-01 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://b