I have the same problem but with amd 7970M series gpu. I did fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.10 and neither the Ubuntu restricted graphic drivers work or the latest d river available from amd website work . However , only open source drivers work but my gpu run hot since its not supported fully by open source driver. When I installed property drivers. Unity vanished and onlt desktop wallpaper and icon appears when I logged ( that is after restart of completing installing property driver). I am running Hybrid intel/amd graphics system. Here is the specification of my system:
I have the same problem but with amd 7970M series gpu. I did fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.10 and neither the Ubuntu restricted graphic drivers work or the latest d river available from amd website work . However , only open source drivers work but my gpu run hot since its not supported fully by open source driver. When I installed property drivers. Unity vanished and onlt desktop wallpaper and icon appears when I logged ( that is after restart of completing installing property driver). I am running Hybrid intel/amd graphics system. Here is the specification of my system:
Intel 3610M core i7 mobile cpu
AMD 7970M gpu
16GB ram
256 GB crucial m4 ram + 500 GB HDD
artheos 9k wireless driver