No Unity or Gnome after upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10

Asked by P J Reil

I upgraded to 12.10 from 11.10 in which I had 3D unity and Avant as well as Gnome operating. I now have only Avant (and no 3d). Additionally, my mouse no longer works properly in the Firefox program menus.

I am running an HP Pavilion DV6000 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57 × 2 with a Navida GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M/integrated/SSE2 graphics card. I've used all the available proptitery and non-propritary drivers listed on the additional drivers tab of my settings pane to no availi.

I would really appreciate some guidence in dealing with this problem, I'm not expierienced enough in linux to work it out as yet.

TY

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said :
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A suggestion could be to stick with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for a while , as 12.10 is a new release and if you search you will find a lot of bugs open.

Thanks

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P J Reil (preil65) said :
#2

Okay, but how do I get the 12.10 off and the 12.04 back on with out a complete install?

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P J Reil (preil65) said :
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Oops! I shoukd have said, "rhe 11.10 back on."

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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You would need to reinstall. Have you tried uninstalling the Nvidia driver, then rebooting, then reinstalling it?

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said :
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If you don't want to reinstall (this is the only way to downgrade) you can try some things .

Open a terminal (With CTRL+ALT+T keys combo) and copy-paste from here bellow commands . Bellow commands will reset EVERYTHING to default (all your configurations will be lost), but there is a hope to get a working environment again .

Uninstall nvidia driver

~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*

~$ sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-destkop

Reset Unity & Compiz settings

~$ rm -rf .compiz* .gconf* .config/dconf/ .config/compiz*

Reboot and if you still have problem run these commands

~$ sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

~$ dconf reset -f /org/compiz/

~$ unity --reset-icons

~$ setsid unity

Thanks

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P J Reil (preil65) said :
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Thank you all very nuch for your assistance. Resetting the Unity and Compiz settings did the job.