Unity sidebar help!!!!!

[bzzman]

I upgraded from 10.10 and I love Unity. But, in the sidebar, there are no icons. The sidebar is there, but no icons. If I roll over where the icons should be, the text displays. This is getting annoying and I can't find anything wrong with my system. Help!!!

Thanks in advance,

Bzzman

[mc4man]

you may be affected by this bug (are you using the 173.... nvidia drivers?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nux/+bug/768178
Maybe post what your vidoe card is


sudo lshw -C display

[bzzman]

I am using an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100. I have tried the 173 driver, but. When Unity loaded, the icons flashed and disappeared, and the sidebar did not load at all. So I tried the experimental drivers for it, and everything was fine. Then, I noticed that the sidebar icons were not there. Everything else in Unity works seamlessly. No missing icons or anything. I will try the code.

[bzzman]

Ok, so here's EXACTLY what I got from running the code:

*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: NV34 [GeForce FX 5100]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=64 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5
resources: irq:18 memory:f1000000-f1ffffff memory:f4000000-f7ffffff memory:f8000000-f801ffff

[mc4man]

here's the no icon in launcher bug for the nouveau 3d drivers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/762478

So Atm neither is going to work right

[bzzman]

Ok, I found the next best thing. Unity 2D. Actually faster than GNOME. REALLY like it. Same thing as 3D, but without the 3D. I don't notice any major changes. Ah well. We tried.

[mc4man]

I gather from those 2 bugs that unity 2d will be the recommend for those type cards, ck. them once and a while to see if there was a fix for either or both.
(or you may decide the 2d is best for that hardware..