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billybag
July 22nd, 2008, 09:30 PM
I had to disable compiz so i could play a game in full screen and now, since then, i am unable to use compiz. I get this message

"Desktop effects could not be enabled"

what happened?

Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 10de:0427 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1440x900) to maximum 3D texture size (8192): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Could not acquire compositing manager selection on screen 0 display ":0.0"
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

overdrank
July 22nd, 2008, 09:37 PM
I had to disable compiz so i could play a game in full screen and now, since then, i am unable to use compiz. I get this message

"Desktop effects could not be enabled"

what happened?

Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 10de:0427 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1440x900) to maximum 3D texture size (8192): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Could not acquire compositing manager selection on screen 0 display ":0.0"
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Hi and I moved your thread here to Desktop Effects & Customization
Please look at the FAQ's link in my signature also
:)