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Regression: Unity now refuses to run on hardware it used to run on

Asked by Johann Haarhoff

I've been running Unity for a few months now (loving it), but after tonights "aptitude upgrade", I get the "Your hardware is not good enough for Unity" dialog after login, and then it starts normal gnome.

some more info:

$ lspci | grep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]

$ dpkg -l unity
ii unity 3.8.2-0ubuntu1

$ dpkg -l xserver-xorg-video-ati
ii xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4

Please let me know if you need more info.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You may need an xorg.conf to make the display nice. There is a section you can use in this link:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1231030.html

But you will need to add more as is not a full xorg.conf file.

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Johann Haarhoff (johann-haarhoff) said : 		#2

OK, this was solved by uninstalling "nvidia-current".

nvidia-current replaces libGL, which removes the GLX extension from xorg, which causes unity to fail.

(b.t.w. nvidia-current is a dependency for python-opencl, which I believe is incorrect if the person only has an ATI card)