Thanks for that. Both versions give "Capabilities : <access denied> " ; "Kernel driver in use: radeon" ; " Kernel modules: radeon". From the link you suggested ( .../RadeonDriver) it seems to suggest that Unity should run on my Radeon X1800.
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Roberts <817...@bugs.launchpad.net> To: mkreeds <mkre...@aol.com> Sent: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:25 Subject: [Bug 817063] Re: unity desktop wont run Should be able to find out the same from "lspci -v", under the VGA section see "kernel driver in use" and "kernel modules". Also , the following link might be helpful: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817063 Title: unity desktop wont run Status in Unity: New Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: For some time now I have been running Ubuntu Karmic Koala with no problem.I was tempted to upgrade to Natty Narwhale so I installed it from DVD onto a spare partition on my 2nd disk) and it loaded ok and gave me a Unity desktop. However, when I upgraded Karmic to V11.04 via the web I was told that my hardware did not support Unity and gave me Gnome desktop. How come one version of Natty lets me run Unity where- as the upgraded version wont and both disks on the same pc? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Jul 27 16:28:12 2011 FirefoxPackages: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2 flashplugin-installer N/A adobe-flashplugin 10.3.181.34-0natty1 icedtea-plugin 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1.1 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LANG=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-07-24 (3 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/817063/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817063 Title: unity desktop wont run To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/817063/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
