is that still an issue? ** Changed in: unity Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1072499 Title: [regression] Remote login to Unity on quantal fails if the remote machine has proprietary graphics drivers installed Status in Unity: New Status in unity package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After upgrading this computer from Ubuntu 12.04 Precise to Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, I am no longer able to log in to it remotely with vnc4server and use Unity. Upon connecting with VNC, I am presented with the Unity greeter, and if I choose the default Unity session and log in then I get a broken desktop. i.e., the Unity launcher and top panel are missing, shortcuts don't work, etc. If I understand correctly, this is because Unity 2D has been removed in 12.10 and the fallback for situations without hardware acceleration is supposed to be Gallium3D's LLVMpipe. However, proprietary graphics drivers replace the Mesa libGL.so implementation, so using LLVMpipe is not possible on machines with proprietary graphics drivers installed and thus Unity/Compiz fails to run. To solve this without reintroducing a fallback window manager, we probably need the next-gen Linux OpenGL ABI to support side-by-side libGL implementations from different vendors and auto-detect the correct one to use in some way. See e.g. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE4NDA. The work-around is to use GNOME Classic (without effects) instead of Unity. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: unity 6.10.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom] Date: Sun Oct 28 15:33:02 2012 MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-28 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1072499/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
