Desktop Effects Could Not Be Enabled

[scotty331]

Well, Im new to linux. And I Installed Jaunty on my computer. Then when I first ran it, I put the effects to extra. Then it started lagging, so i acidentally put them on None! And now when i try to put them on normal, I get an error saying
Desktop Effects Could Not Be Enabled! Please help me to get the desktop effects back!

[Tamlynmac]

It might help if you would post your system hardware and spces. I suspect someone is going to ask for them. Don't forget to include:
CPU %
Memory & Swap
These can be found on the resources tab of system/administration/system monitor
If your CPU % is high or your memory usage is large check the Processes tab and identify what apps are using the resources.

Sorry I can't be of more help, but I think if you identify your system information, it might help identify the problem.

Good Luck

[Ra-Hoor-Khuit]

Go to System/Administration/Hardware Drivers and make sure the restricted-driver for you video card is enabled; the "advanced desktop effects" require it.

[AoSteve]

Sounds like a driver issue there. Do you happen to know what video card the system has? Also, if you don't know you have a very effective way to find out.

Click the "Applications" menu and head to accessories. Then select terminal. You will start and see something similar to this :

gnome@E8400:~$


From here simply type this command... lspci -v

When you post back simply enclose those in the post and we'll be able to determine what video card you have and what the proper drivers are. :) You can simply select the information with the mouse and right click and pick copy and then past it into your reply. :)

[scotty331]

It might help if you would post your system hardware and spces. I suspect someone is going to ask for them. Don't forget to include:
CPU %
Memory & Swap
These can be found on the resources tab of system/administration/system monitor
If your CPU % is high or your memory usage is large check the Processes tab and identify what apps are using the resources.

Sorry I can't be of more help, but I think if you identify your system information, it might help identify the problem.

Good Luck

Okay. The %'s are

CPU = 22%
Memory =31%
Swap =47%

[scotty331]

Sounds like a driver issue there. Do you happen to know what video card the system has? Also, if you don't know you have a very effective way to find out.

Click the "Applications" menu and head to accessories. Then select terminal. You will start and see something similar to this :

gnome@E8400:~$


From here simply type this command... lspci -v

When you post back simply enclose those in the post and we'll be able to determine what video card you have and what the proper drivers are. :) You can simply select the information with the mouse and right click and pick copy and then past it into your reply. :)






Okay, Well Its long but

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: dfd00000-dfdfffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at dff00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at e898 [size=8]
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at dfec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: intelfb

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82915G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at dff80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: dfc00000-dfcfffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at ff80 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
I/O ports at ff60 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at ff40 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at ff20 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at ffa80800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3) (prog-if 01)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: dfb00000-dfbfffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
I/O ports at e8c0 [size=64]
Memory at dfebfe00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at dfebfd00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at fe00 [size=8]
I/O ports at fe10 [size=4]
I/O ports at fe20 [size=8]
I/O ports at fe30 [size=4]
I/O ports at fea0 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5
I/O ports at e8a0 [size=32]
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

03:01.0 Modem: Intel Corporation FA82537EP 56K V.92 Data/Fax Modem PCI (rev 04)
Subsystem: Dell Device 1000
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at dfbfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: serial

03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
Memory at dfbff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at d8c0 [size=64]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: e100
Kernel modules: e100

[AoSteve]

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at dff00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at e898 [size=8]
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at dfec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: intelfb

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82915G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0181
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at dff80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>



Using this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582&highlight=intel+video) guide I installed the intel video drivers. I only did part A and tested it and made absolute sure it was identical as it says in the post. I'm nowhere near advanced enough in linux to start messing with kernels so I stayed with the "safe" option and it worked! Basically, I enabled "uxa" under the acceleration option and that was about the only change I had to make. :)

A couple things to remember. Backup your original xorg.conf file with this command in a terminal.



sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/xorg.BACKUP


To easily edit the file like it shows in the "howto"..



sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf


Also, another good idea that helped me through it, as I was basically in the SAME situation... When you get to the login screen you can choose "safe graphics mode" from the options. If you mess up, and I did a couple times lol, you will have to option for it to automatically reset itself. :)

If there's anything else I can tell you or explain, please let me know. Personally, I wouldn't go past step A on that howto as I honestly don't think I'm ready to go that far just yet! :)

[roccity1]

I have a Inthing.
el video chip as well. I found that by going commenting out the blacklisted intel driver in /usr/bin/compiz helped fix everything.

Open /usr/bin/compiz with gedit and add a # in front of the section dealing with Intel cards. That should hellp you you might have to log out and then back in.