Unable to enable extra or normal visual effects

[loweehahn]

There's something funny. Previously I was able to enable extra visual effects for my laptop when I used ubuntu 8.10 but after I upgraded it to 9.04 I no longer can enable the extra visual effects nor normal visual effects.

[applecake]

I'm not a pro, but have you got drivers for your graphic card installed?
Usually, on the first run after installation, there is a notification saying that there are "proprietary drivers avaible" for your graphic card.

You can also check in the program called "Synaptic" (System>administration>Synaptic package manager) if the package "compiz" is installed.

By the way, have you upgraded to 9.04 or have you made a fresh and new install?

Hope I help somewhat :)

[devosion]

Run lspci in terminal and post your results, please.

[tonymax99]

hi,

i need some help too...

it seems compiz is installed, i hve the wobbly windows and can have workspaces

but some of the extras likethe cube i cannot gt to work..

are they enabled anywhere..

i cannot install the compiz settings manager..??

any help much appreciated...

Tony

[andrea000]

hello,

here is a link (http://linux.about.com/od/dist_ubuntu/a/ubucompiz.htm/) you should have a look at helped me

[tonymax99]

thanks andrea000, will give that a look

[loweehahn]

There are a few compiz installed. I made a fresh new installation because there was a problem upgrading it because a certain file couldn't be downloaded. What is Ispci?

[andrea000]

What type of video card do you have?

[Concrete]

What is Ispci?

Run that in terminal and that will show u a some info. about u'r video card and a video controler on u'r motherboard.

[loweehahn]

How to check what kind of video card I have? I've typed Ispci in Terminal but it says no command found.

[Concrete]

It's smallcase L (l) not I (i)....