Precise live and installation forces 3D with P4M800 GPU
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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unity-2d (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I really struggled as far as what package to file this against so apologies in advance, but I don't know what process determines whether to load standard unity or unity-2d.
As the title says I'm running an old VIA C7 CPU with P4M800 graphics and both the live desktop appeared to be booting into the standard "ubuntu" DE, and it was so unusable I couldn't really even see what was going on. So I rebooted the 20120225 i386 live CD (actually DVD due to iso size) and chose install.
The installation completed but as expected I booted into a nearly unusable DE, although I was very patient and managed to get a terminal launched to run "echo $DESKTOP_SESSION" and it said "ubuntu". So I logged out and chose the 2D session ............ certainly that was much more acceptable.
I looked at the xorg logs and it seems x properly recognized the graphics, and I don't think this would be a ubiquity bug since it also effects the live DE, maybe a casper bug? I'm really clueless so apologies again.
After installation, managing to logout, and choosing 2D things seem acceptable (aside from unrelated bugs) and the choice of 2D is retained by lightdm if that's helpful.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity-2d 5.4.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 26 01:15:01 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120225)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-2d
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
This is only a test, I'm having trouble attaching logs from the effected machine/OS so I'm just testing my connection.