Compiz-Check -- no more "Desktop effects could not be enabled"

[owain35]

owain@owain-laptop:~$ ./compiz-check

Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Driver in use: intel
Rendering method: None

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system... [SKIP]

Checking for hardware/setup problems... [SKIP]

At least one check had to be skipped:
Error: No rendering method in use (AIGLX, Xgl or Nvidia)


Any help with this message would be appreciated...I used to have visual effects but they recently stopped working and I cannot figure out why. How can I enable a "rendering method"?

Thanks, Owain

[owain35]

By the way, I seem to remember changing which processor is used for graphics whilst trying to solve the problem of poor frame rate in streamed video. It may be that the graphics card is doing the computations instead of the processor, or vice versa. I am a massive newbie so sorry if this isn't helpful!

Owain

[catlover2]

hi,

"Desktop effects could not be enabled" and i have transparency enabled in compiz but it does not work.

  reed@reeds-Satellite-M30X-laptop:~/Desktop$ ./compiz-check

Gathering information about your system...

 Distribution:          Ubuntu 10.10
 Desktop environment:   GNOME
 Graphics chip:         Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
 Driver in use:         vesa
 Rendering method:      AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...  [SKIP]

 Checking for hardware/setup problems...           [SKIP]

At least one check had to be skipped:
 Error: vesa driver in use 

Would you like to know more? (Y/n) y

 The vesa driver is not capable of running Compiz, you need to install
 the proper driver for your graphics card. 

Check if there's an alternate (proprietary) driver available? (Y/n) y
reed@reeds-Satellite-M30X-laptop:~/Desktop$ compiz
compiz (core) - Fatal: Software rendering detected.
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Launching fallback window manager
Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "default": Failed to find a valid file for theme default

[sinnerz2000]

heres my compiz-check result

compiz (core) - Fatal: Software rendering detected.
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Launching fallback window manager

i have no graphic card, amd64 3000+ with 1.5gb ram and ubuntu 10.10

[m@kis]

Updating the NVIDIA Driver fixed the "Error: Unable to detect maximum 3D texture size" for me and Compiz is working again.
[NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS]

thnx.

[Alexander_009]

if I run the compriz check I get this :

Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9200M GS] (rev a1)
Driver in use: nvidia
Rendering method: Nvidia

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [ OK ]
Checking for non power of two support... [ OK ]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ]
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [ OK ]

extra visual effects
So it seems like everything is just fine but , if I want to enable extra visual effects it seems not possible( see picture ) and because that ist possible it isn't possible to run compriz properly as well . What can be the issue here ?

[Ken_g6]

Owain, that looks like what I'm getting on 9.04 when trying to use an Intel card with an nVIDIA card installed. You probably want to switch back to the other card - it's probably better for your purposes - but that's not a good option for me.

Edit: Here is a set of instructions that would probably work for you. But I wouldn't follow them unless I was really sure what I was doing.

My only problem now is that I didn't back up the Intel files in the first place.

[Scoobin]

Thanks for the link and the script Forlong!

I've run the script and made the necessary changes so that everything now gets a pass.

Basically I downloaded a Compiz update today on Update Manager and now Compiz cannot be enabled. Here's my device info:

Distribution:          Ubuntu 10.10
 Desktop environment:   GNOME
 Graphics chip:         nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)
 Driver in use:         nvidia
 Rendering method:      Nvidia

[satyanash]

 
Distribution:          Ubuntu 10.04
 Desktop environment:   Unknown
 Graphics chip:         VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01)
 Driver in use:         openchrome
 Rendering method:      AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...  [SKIP]

 Checking for hardware/setup problems...           [SKIP]

At least one check had to be skipped:
 Error: openchrome driver in use

[Raugturi]

I tried my own thread on this and am not getting a response, so I have a couple of question if someone can help me. I have installed the fglrx driver on my system with an HD 3650 and cannot enable compiz. For the moment my main question is how to enable AIGLX. When I run compiz-check no rendering method is detected. I have enabled it in xorg.conf by adding the option as true in ServerLayout and by enabling Composite in the Extensions section (which I added). However, when I do "grep -i AIGLX /var/log/Xorg.0.log" here is the result:

[    21.256] (**) Option "AIGLX" "true"
[    26.141] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so

As you can see, there is no line saying AIGLX enabled.

What's also bizarre is that I can load compiz manually using the command, with both this driver and when I reverted to the non-proprietary one. It only fails when I try to enable it via the Appearance menu. More details here.

Note: If I modify compiz-check to have it set RENDER=AIGLX even though it isn't in the log then all checks come back as OK. However, I still cannot enable desktop effects. They turn on, the screen refreshes with all of them enabled, then it says "Desktop effects could not be enabled." and turns them back off again.