Visual Effects cannot be enabled

[Saklovitij]

I have recently updated to Ubuntu 10.04 (version of Gnome Desktop environment: 2.30.0, version of Linux kernel: 2.6.32-21-generic). My problem is that when I try to enable "Visual Effects", I receive an error message: "Desktop effects cannot be enabled". When I attempt to enable Visual Effects, my system starts searching for external device drivers but finds none. I don't believe that the source of the problem should lie in my graphics card (I have a DELL Inspiron 1545 notebook with an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD graphics with up to 1750 MB of dynamically shared memory allocated by the system). With the earlier version of Ubuntu, the 9.10, I didn't have this problem. I would appreciate any help or comment that could bring me nearer to solve this problem.

Thanks in advance,
Saklovitij

[quixote]

The only thing I can think is that the default graphics driver for your setup is not good enough for anything fancy. Search for your graphics and "lucid" and "drivers" (without quotes) and see if anything useful appears.

[Bradrox]

I am also having the same problem with my dell inspiron 1501