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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed but no Unity 3D only 2D...

Asked by ubundell

I have a Compaq Presario SR2030NX desktop PC - AMD Athlon 64 - Nvidia Ge Force 6150 LE/Integrated SSE2 .

When I try to boot Unity 3D the desktop comes up but there is a bar at the bottom that appears for a while (nothing on it) the screen flashes a few or more times, then the bar dissappears but only the background picture is available. no buttons or icons or nothing--although I can right-click & change desktop appearance,etc. but I cannot close that window once it is up. no launcher, no shutdown or restart buttons or applets, or anything else.

I have to push the power on my pc or try to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to get it to restart.

I then just log in & boot from unity 2D.

I would really love to have Unity3D if I am able to so any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. thanks for your time.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep nvidia

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ubundell (salnlaura2576) said : 		#2

*-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: C51 [GeForce 6150 LE]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci@0000:00:05.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:fc000000-fcffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:60000000-6001ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux Owner 3.2.0-24-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 25 08:43:22 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.44 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-current 295.40-0ubuntu1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-settings 295.33-0ubuntu1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ubundaq@Owner:~$

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#3

Your Nvidia 6150 really doesn't acceptably do Unity 3D, so stick with the 2D. I have a 6150, and did see it try to run 3D when I got it confused by booting off a usb which I had moved between systems (one of which could do 3D), and the slow speed of things like window drag was a joke.

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