Problems with Desktop Effects in Gusty Gibbon

[jfd]

Hi Everyone.

Yesterday I was pleased to find that the new Ubuntu distro had been released. I have been using Ubuntu for a while, my first distro being the last one (Fiesty Fawn). I upgraded yesterday and all seems fine apart from the Desktop Effects.

My graphics card is an integrated Silicon Integrated Systems 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP, and I'm not sure if this would be able to live up to the Desktop Effects needs.

When I try and set the Desktop Effects to normal it just comes up with "Desktop Effects could not be enabled". Any ideas how I would be able to get it to work?

If that graphics card can't handle the Desktop Effects I also have an NVidia Gforce 2 MX-400 that I don't use at the moment, but I can't find the linux drivers for it?

Thanks for your help.

[Hobo Joe]

I'm not familar with that card, but it sounds like a pretty small brand name. Which means it probably won't have very good drivers.

As for the Gforce 2, you most likely won't be able to run desktop effects with it, it's an old card.

[drinkpepsi]

Nvidia driver:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_x86_96.43.01.html

[digitalbenji]

a gforce 2 should be able to handle desktop effects, its not THAT old of a card. Since its an nvidia card, you will need to get XGL running, and I don't know if gutsy sets that up be default or not.

[jfd]

no i thought that as well it's just getting the graphics card to work with Ubuntu, which i cant seem to do! When i try and install the driver it says that gedit has not been able to detects the character coding