I have always found NVidia to be the most Linux friendly cards until 

Unity. I am not thrilled with the interface, but I want to test it out 

and give it a fair evaluation before it is foisted on me next year for 

all the library computers that I manage.

I could not get 11.04 ever to run on my laptop, either by upgrade or 

fresh install so I have stayed with 10.10. I test 11.10 and found it 

will at least run Unity but only 2D, where in 10.10 it is running fully 

tricked-out Compiz with Emerald with no trouble at all!

Firstly it seems that it does not use the NVidia driver, nothing in 

"Additional Drivers". I enabled the restricted sources, added the PPA 

and tried to install the nvidia-current and I get the dang 

initramfs-tools install error and then left with a none working X.

Testing with unity_support_test shows that the laptop's Go 7300 is 

blacklisted. It is an older card, but as I said before pre-Unity 3d was 

no issue. But my desktop's new 450 GTS is not supported either?

Not software rendered:    no

GLX texture from pixmap:  no

What gives? What is the procedure to get a NVidia card to run Unity? 

Whatever I have found fails...

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Take care,

Jonathan

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