select unity desktop to run but only get unity 2D

Asked by carlvilbrandt

select unity desktop to run but when I run myunity it tells me that Unity 2D is runing. So how do I tell what desktop is running.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

Can you please give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; sudo dmidecode -t 1

Thanks

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carlvilbrandt (carl-cgpl) said :
#2

thanks it was working in 3D mode at first ... I think.

 *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G84 [GeForce 8600M GT]
       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 cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:c6000000-c6ffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:c4000000-c5ffffff ioport:2000(size=128)
LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux carl-laptop 3.2.0-33-generic-pae #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18 16:39:21 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
 Manufacturer: -
 Product Name: N/A
 Version: N/A
 Serial Number: N/A
 UUID: 19A1D085-E53F-11DC-8451-001B38D68FD1
 Wake-up Type: Power Switch
 SKU Number: Compal
 Family: Compal

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

Try:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Reboot to test

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