unity should give an error to the user when not supported by the driver/graphic card
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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OEM Priority Project |
Fix Released
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High
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Chris Van Hoof | ||
Ubuntu Translations |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Unity |
Fix Released
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High
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Didier Roche-Tolomelli | ||
mutter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Canonical Desktop Experience Team |
Bug Description
I was testing Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 Alpha 3 and have found that it does not fall back to a 2D interface if 3D fails like UNE 10.04 did. This means that any hardware that doesn't support 3D graphics will not be usable with Ubuntu Netbook Edition.
This can be reproduced by booting the netbook edition ISO in an environment that only supports 2D graphics such as within VirtualBox and choosing "Try Ubuntu Netbook 10.10". You are brought to a blank wallpaper with no error message, no fallback to 2D mode, or fallback to the standard Gnome Desktop.
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The new strings are from a dialog:
Title:
"No required driver detected for unity."
Text:
"You will need to choose the Ubuntu Desktop session once you select your user name."
Related branches
- Neil J. Patel (community): Approve
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Diff: 169 lines (+138/-0)1 file modifiedtargets/mutter/main.c (+138/-0)
Changed in oem-priority: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
assignee: | nobody → Kevin Krafthefer (krafthefer) |
tags: | added: iso-testing |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
assignee: | Kevin Krafthefer (krafthefer) → Canonical Platform QA Team (canonical-platform-qa) |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
assignee: | Canonical Platform QA Team (canonical-platform-qa) → nobody |
Changed in unity: | |
assignee: | nobody → Didier Roche (didrocks) |
status: | New → Triaged |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | backlog → 2010-09-22 |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in ubuntu-translations: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
tags: | added: maverick |
description: | updated |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
assignee: | nobody → Chris Van Hoof (vanhoof) |
Changed in ubuntu-translations: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
Jerone, I saw you marked this an OEM priority goal. With alpha-3, the armel images now have a new version of netbook- launcher- efl again, while the the i386/amd64 variants only have unity. These days, intelish netbooks all come with 3D capable graphics, and it is nontrivial (i. e. costs a lot of boot time) to detect that and provide an automatic switch. Moreover, Mark himself nack'ed adding this fallback to maverick, since unity looks so much different from n-l.
However, on armel this should now be fixed.