desktop effects could not be enabled (again!)

[Paperfairy]

This is the same old bug from before - they worked in Intrepid but refuse to work in Jaunty. I have tried installing he xorg intel 2.4 drivers, I tried turning off blacklisting from Compiz, and just about everything else short of reinstall.

I should point out that when I FIRST switcheed to Jaunty, disabling the blacklist worked, but after trying to install compiz-fusion, it stopped. I assume I either accidentally removed a dependency or I messed up a configuration file. BTW, I did attempt to recreate my xorg.conf, but to no avail.




Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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.
Checking screen 1Comparing resolution (1440x900) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: Not present.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz: 455: /usr/bin/compiz.real: not found





Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Ubuntu 9.04
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
Driver in use: intel
Rendering method: AIGLX

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 ]



any ideas?

[rainwalker]

If I had to guess I would blame your video card; I haven't heard anything good about Intel video drivers in Jaunty. If you haven't already, I would recommend looking into rolling back to a previous driver version.

[Paperfairy]

Could you walk me through that process?

[rainwalker]

Could you walk me through that process?

I actually have no idea how to do it, because I've never had an Intel card :?
I know you're not the only one who has had issues, though, so I'm sure you could find someone who has already done it on the forums or even Google. Sorry I can't be more help than that :(

[Paperfairy]

Thanks. The Google has proven usless, hopefully bumping this will help~

[rainwalker]

Found these with google, might be worth checking out:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTartler/X/RevertingIntelDriverTo2.4
http://www.myubuntu.ca/?p=256&cpage=1
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582

[Paperfairy]

For anybody curious, none of the aforementioned had any impact.

[Paperfairy]

I believe a bump is in order?


Used sudo apt-get install compiz and it seems to have worked.