Comment 12 for bug 1212821

Hi Colin,

The Compiz opengl plugin is not loading, which is obvious:) So I've been thinking about why it's not loading on your machine. The "old hardware" in the bug title got me wondering what type of graphics hardware is in the system. I just now noticed that you wrote that you have Intel 865 graphics. After looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units, this is Intel 2nd generation graphics and supports OpenGL 1.3.

Compiz/Unity require OpenGL 1.4 and above in order to work. The crapping out of the opengl plugin is not very friendly, but this is what is happening. I think you said that you tried forcing llvmpipe, but that didn't work, so I'm not really sure what you can do at this point.

For confirmation, try issuing /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p and see what it says.