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I am trying to get Unity 3d running on Ubuntu 11.10

I ran the test shared on this post How to enable Unity 3D on an Nvidia Quadro 1000M

and I got this result:

me@Dell-Ubuntu:~$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Error: unable to create the OpenGL context

I have a Dell XPS 15 L502x with Geforce 555M 1GB graphics card.

How can I enable Unity 3D with this setup? Thanks

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urok93
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Bumblebee and your graphics card were already largely discussed here. Have a look.

Basic recommendation is stay away from optimus, nvidia does not give driver support for linux on those yet!

The only methods known to do anything in your graphics is to disable the nvidia card with acpi calls, saves battery but that wont do any good on turning your unity3d on, you will be running with your default Intel card, which is also a very bad thing.

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Bruno Pereira
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I have a dell xps and i had this problem: The "optimus" technology that is used to switch between the nvidia graphics card and the integrated graphics is not supported by the nvidia drivers given. So you cannot run 3d-graphics. Because it will always use the integrated graphics instead of the nvidia graphics. This is a frustrating problem because the card keeps consuming power while not doing anything.

I haven't found a solution yet. I don't know if this is the same problem you are having but it might be.

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Graphics cards seem to have become a large issue with the 11.10 release. nVidia has been especially plagued with its fair share. The best you can do at this point is to upgrade the driver, restart, and attempt to test again.

Since nVidia is not an open source driver it's completely reliant on the company itself to fix this issue, which could take some time to do.

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