  The generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG) model is the prototype of a unified model
of dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM). It is characterized by
equation-of-state (EoS) parameters $A$ and $\alpha$. We use a statistical
analysis of the 2dFGRS data to constrain these parameters. In particular, we
find that very small (close to zero) and very large values ($\alpha\gg 1$) of
the equation-of-state parameter $\alpha$ are preferred. To test the validity of
this type of unification of the dark sector we admit the existence of a
separate DM component in addition to the Chaplygin gas and calculate the
probability distribution for the fractional contributions of both components to
the total energy density. This analysis favors a model for which the Universe
is nearly entirely made up of the separate DM component with an almost
negligible Chaplygin gas part. This confirms the results of a previous
Newtonian analysis.
