Can't enable Desktop effects

[tekas1234]

Hey guys,
I have the following specs:
Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 620 processor @2.6GHz
Motherboard: GF615M-P33 (MS-7597)
Graphics card: ATI Radeon 5400
With an integrated nVidia graphic card too.

I can't enable my desktop effects. That is when I try to do so I get the error:

Desktop effects can't be enabled.
by the Change Desktop Background.

lspci| grep VGA
returns:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 68f9

What should I do?

[sikander3786]

Welcome to the forums :-)

Did you install the proper graphics drivers for your card? See under System > Administration > Hardware Drivers/Additional Drivers.

Post the output of this command as well.


glxinfo | grep vendor

[tekas1234]

Welcome to the forums :-)

Thanks :)



Did you install the proper graphics drivers for your card? See under System > Administration > Hardware Drivers/Additional Drivers.


There is no propriety driver installed. There is however an option to active the "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver."



Post the output of this command as well.


glxinfo | grep vendor


No output was generated, even used sudo.

[wojox]

There is however an option to active the "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver."

Activate it and reboot.

[tekas1234]

SystemError: installArchives() failed

[tekas1234]

I forgot to mention...I can run "Compiz Fusion icon" which runs Compiz Fusion.

[sikander3786]

SystemError: installArchives() failed
In regard to this post, can you please post the complete output of this command to let us see what is going on with package management.


sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Basically, you need to install the ATI drivers from repositories and then you'll be able to use compiz.

[stchman]

Should just be a simple matter of enabling the proprietary ATI driver.

[tekas1234]

Should just be a simple matter of enabling the proprietary ATI driver.

Like I said, can't enable it. :(

[tekas1234]

In regard to this post, can you please post the complete output of this command to let us see what is going on with package management.


sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Basically, you need to install the ATI drivers from repositories and then you'll be able to use compiz.

Its been updating and upgrading for the past two hours. Can't wait for it to finish.:popcorn:

[Forlong]

Two hours? :-k
Are you that low on bandwidth or do you rarely update?

In any case, you can run Compiz-Check (http://forlong.blogage.de/article/pages/Compiz-Check) to see what the problem is, once updating is finished.