Installed 11.10 on this Dell Vostro 3550. Jockey offered to install the proprietary FGLRX driver to give me 3d acceleration. I installed fglrx, restarted the system and tried, but still got 2d unity. Regardless of whether I selected Unity or Unity 2D in LightDM, I always get 2D Unity.
I then tried installing fglrx_updates from Jockey but that package fails to install completely.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: fglrx (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,vpswitch,snap,compiztoolbox,move,resize,imgpng,place,regex,grid,gnomecompat,mousepoll,unitymtgrabhandles,session,animation,wall,fade,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Sun Oct 16 11:51:52 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: fglrx-updates, 8.881, 3.0.0-12-generic-pae, i686: installed
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:04cd]
ATI Technologies Inc NI Whistler [AMD Radeon HD 6600M Series] [1002:6741] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:04cd]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
JockeyStatus:
xorg:fglrx_updates - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release updates) (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Vostro 3550
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic-pae root=UUID=3abbeea1-ba77-4ad6-8c60-0778d3d378aa ro quiet splash initcall_debug vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
UnitySupportTest:
Error: command ['/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test', '-p', '-f'] failed with exit code 1: X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 155 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 21
Current serial number in output stream: 21
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/04/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: X19
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: X19
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrX19:bd01/04/2011:svnDellInc.:pnVostro3550:pvrNotSpecified:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvrX19:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified:
dmi.product.name: Vostro 3550
dmi.product.version: Not Specified
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu3
version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.