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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 2D Mode

Asked by Antonio Martinez Lopez

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and i amtrying to use compiz and Unity but it is telling me that it is running on 2D even though I am running on 3D. I am not sure what is wrong.. Can someone help me out?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

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

Thanks

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vamsi krishna kv (kvk1293) said : 		#2

I got output as the following for
sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a
>>
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:43 memory:f6800000-f6bfffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux vamsi-Inspiron-N5050 3.2.0-24-generic-pae #37-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 25 10:47:59 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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Antonio Martinez Lopez (antonio45martinez) said : 		#3

 *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GF108 [GeForce GT 555M]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:f0000000-f0ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:2000(size=128) memory:f1000000-f107ffff
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:55 memory:f1400000-f17fffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:3000(size=64)
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux antonio-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y570 3.2.0-23-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 22:19:09 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
antonio@antonio-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y570:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Yeah that dual GPU nonsense is a nightmare under Linux. There is a project called IronHide which may help but I've never seen a success story with this. Also Nvidia have said they will not be supporting this outside of Windows.

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