Intrepid not using effects

[destructaball]

I recently installed ubuntu 8.10 from USB and I have been using ubuntu on my laptop with compiz since 7.10 and it is now telling me desktop effects cannot be enabled. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[silvanus2005]

What graphic card are you using? I have a simmilar problem with 8.04, after I made an kernel upgrade. It may a problem with drivers for graphic card (I have an Intel graphic card)

[destructaball]

I think that I just did one, there was one in the update today and i don't think that the kernel is the problem. I always had one propriatary driver and now i have none. I think that was the intel graphics driver. How do you update the kernel/ download the correct driver?

[destructaball]

I don't know if this helps but when i typed in compiz --replace (cause thats what people seem to be doing) it came out with.
david@david-laptop:~$ compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (2560x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Failed.
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity

edit (the charactor with the sunglasses is supposed to be an eight and a bracket