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nouveau driver logs into unity-2d by default

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I have an old system with NVIDIA Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4600]. When running Ubuntu , the nouveau driver loads fine but does not log into Unity with compiz. Instead it logs into Unity-2D. Any idea how to enable 3D/ compiz with the nouveau driver.

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 Beta2

The nvidia driver is no more available for this graphics card, so have to rely on nouveau.

UPDATE: Bug reported on launchpad . See here.

There has been no reply as yet to this bug-report - does anyone have any idea how to resolve this?

Further information,

Also, if I use kubuntu desktop, kwin graphics works just fine. But, the users prefer Unity over KDE so I have uninstalled Kubuntu.

installing libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental does not have any effect on the installation. still booting to unity-2d

/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

OpenGL vendor string: Nouveau OpenGL 

renderer string: Mesa DRI nv25 x86/MMX/SSE2 

OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 8.0.2 

Not software rendered: yes 

Not blacklisted: yes 

GLX fbconfig: yes 

GLX texture from pixmap: yes 

GL npot or rect textures: yes 

GL vertex program: no 

GL fragment program: no 

GL vertex buffer object: yes 

GL framebuffer object: yes 

GL version is 1.4+: no 

Unity 3D supported: no

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answered 2 Years ago hergy · Accepted Answer

This all correct. Your card is based on the Nvidia NV20 chipset which has no 3D support using the Nouveau drivers.

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Most of it is WIP and not totally working or so patchy that cannot be considered able to run Unity3D.

For full support of your graphics card you need to install the Nvidia 96.43 drivers (those are the most recent ones your card supports). If you haven't installed any drivers in you system until now just open a terminal and use the following commands

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install nvidia-96

Reboot and you should be using the Nvidia driver you just installed. To make sure run sudo lshw -C display and look for the driver in use at the configuration: driver= line.