Compiz not working

**mr.akik** · June 12th, 2011

I am using ubuntu 9.04.My graphics card is intel845 (built in).My problem is, I can not make compiz work.Resolation is ok.It is 1024x768 but when I try to change visual effect from none to normal or extra, every time it says "Desktop effects could not be enabled".Please tell me how to solve it.I am so much curious about compiz effects.

**sikander3786** · June 12th, 2011

First of all, 9.04 isn't supported any longer so you might not receive any updates or security patches for that. Even. you cannot reach the repositories for installing drivers or some other applications unless you tweak your sources.list a bit. And that too, wouldn't be much helpful because of the security issues.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

If you still want to use the repositories, this might help.

http://ubuntu4beginners.blogspot.com...d-of-life.html

So, the most important thing is to upgrade or do a fresh install of one of the current releases i.e, 10.04 (Supported for 3 years on the desktop) or 11.10 (most recent one supported for 18 months).

If you want to stay with your current install for any reason, enable the repositories as mentioned above. Go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal and run:

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Now, go to System > Administration > Hardware Drivers and see if any drivers are available. If they are, install them and try enabling Compiz again.

If not, we might need to see the output of this command from Terminal:

Code:

lshw -c video

**mr.akik** · June 13th, 2011

Here is the output:
herok@herok-desktop:~$ lshw -c video
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
herok@herok-desktop:~$