My Unity running in 2D

You can change that in the login screen. Check for the ubuntu logo.
Clicking that will give you a list of available sessions from which you can
select.
On Aug 25, 2013 2:11 PM, "Janine" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> New question #234587 on Ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/234587
>
> After some updates last week my display switched to 2D. If I open My Unity
> it says it is running in 2D and not all functions will work.
>
> Can you help me get it back to 3D please?
>
> I have ubuntu 12.04 the LTS and it was working fine prior to the updates.
> Thanks
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Thank you
At the log in screen I click the ubuntu logo, opens a list of options. I can see ubuntu and I can see ubuntu 2D, I click ubunt and log in.
Same thing occurs I am still in 2D!

What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a

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output is

  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G98 [GeForce 8400 GS]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:df000000-dfffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:dc000000-ddffffff ioport:ec00(size=128) memory:defe0000-deffffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux J-cREAtions 3.2.0-52-generic-pae #78-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 26 16:43:19 UTC 2013 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

ok and the output of:

dpkg -l | grep nvidia

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output is

ii nvidia-304 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.3 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.44.2 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-current 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.3 Transitional package for nvidia-current
ii nvidia-settings 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.3 Transitional package for nvidia-settings
ii nvidia-settings-304 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.3 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

You're a star
Thank you!

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.