Unity ubuntu 10.10 aint working my laptop - desktop version is working

Please be a bit more specific with what you mean by "not workin", Jarek.

How do you start unity? From the gdm-login via the session selector or from a terminal-window from within you desktop-session?

Does it crash? Could you provide a backtrace with gdb in that case?

Does it render garbage on the screen or are only parts missing (e.g. textures)?

How did you install unity? Via source or via package-management (e.g. synaptic or software-center)

Just describe in more detail what/how it fails. Also please provide some information about your system (most importantly... gfx-card and driver-version used). Thanks in advance!

i installed it from normal installer - graphic mode
and it boot normally then i see login screen - so i am login in and normally i would see my desktop in Unity right? u know - icons, panels etc...but all i can see its just purple background and thats it..rest is no loadin or i cant see it...mouse - i can move it but right click does not respond also...i updated it today - but still its not workin, not showin anythin..its like x-server is not compatible...

my card is:

Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

i got same problem with Ubuntu 10.10 desktop edition - but after updates i can see whole desktop and its workin...with Unity not

Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Is that an nVidia chip??

I found this searching for issues relating to the nVidia cards (I have a GT240M) but IIRC, Intel Mobile 945s are not nVidia... I could be wrong though...

i dont know now..maybe its not nvidia then..anyway i never had any problems with graphics with this on any previous version of ubuntu...in 10.10 there are problems.

well i checked this again and i am sure again its nvidia chipset:

Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset X nVidia graphics card

Interesting - you might have an nVidia *chipset* on the motherboard
(controlling USB etc) but you seem to have an Intel *graphics chip*.

Mark

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thank u for your time,
when i get home today - i will send more infos

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I found this bug after an extensive search. I tried loading the ubuntu-10.10-beta-netbook-i386.iso on three machines. The ISO CD MD5 checksum is correct. When booting a live CD session, system boots to the background screen, but the mouse pointer and menus never appear. CTRL-ALT-F1 can get me to a terminal window. Hitting the power switch brings up the shutdown dialog box. Tried the live CD on three machines, all with some variant of Nvidia graphics cards. I performed an install on an HP TC1100 that went well, but I get the same results when the system boots - no menus or mouse pointer. All three of the systems I used for testing (two Dell desktops and the HP TC1100) are running 10.04 desktop with no issues.

Let me know if I can help by providing additional info and what you'd like to see.

Did you install on them the proprietary driver? You need it for running unity.

If it's the case, can you please run lspci and copy the result here?

Hi Didier,

I seem to remember the "Restricted Drivers in Use" window appearing.

Otherwise, is:

sudo apt-get install nvidia

sufficient to install all of the required drivers?

I'll work with it some more before uninstalling it, and I'll send you a copy of lspci results.

Cheers,
Randy

Didier,

I continued working on this, but put the system in an unusable state that would not boot. I ended up reloading 10.04 Desktop, as I needed to use the machine. I am hoping that things will go better next month if I do an upgrade.

Cheers,
Randy

I have this problem with my EEEPC 1000HD. The graphics card info from lspci:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)

I think this is probably the same as bug 644899

i am also having a problem with unity where i cant see any icons just the task bars and desktop.
im running 10.10 desktop version i have an ati graphics card on a dell aspire 3050.

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 83)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
08:01.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-712/4 Cardbus Controller (rev 10)
08:01.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Memory Stick Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
08:01.2 SD Host controller: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Secure Digital Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
08:01.3 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc: (rev 01)
08:01.4 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
08:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

sorry i meant acer aspire not dell lol

I installed unity on my desktop and am having the same problem. When I select Ubuntu Netbook from GDM and login, I can just see the background and nothing on top of it. Mouse clicks don't work either.
lspci info for my graphics chipset

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 836d
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42
 Region 0: Memory at fe400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
 Region 2: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Region 4: I/O ports at dc00 [size=8]
 Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: i915
 Kernel modules: i915

thanks for reporting this bug and commenting. In Ubuntu Natty Narwal unity have been re-written as a compiz plugin. and this should not be an isssue for you anymore. If you have the time you could test the Natty Alpha-3 ISO to see if the issue is still there. But its quite probable that this bug is automagically fixed on the switch to compiz. I am closing this bug since the development of the mutter version of unity have stopped and the current focus is only compiz unity.