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Ausy

July 10th, 2009, 11:42 AM

Hi everyone!
I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 recently and I can't change my display settings from NORMAL to EXTRA, I keep geting a message 'Desktop effects could not be enabled'.
Can anyone please help me!!!

Sub101

July 10th, 2009, 11:43 AM

Have you installed a driver for your Graphics Card?

csabo2

July 10th, 2009, 04:26 PM

nvidia:

http://www.detector-pro.com/2009/04/how-to-install-nvidia-linux-display.html

ATI: (no support)

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1061698.html

Intel: (bad support, driver availible as of last month)

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-June/028286.html