Are my lucid ppa's causing me these problems in maverick?

[maddbaron]

Problems after upgrading to maverick from lucid:
1 - Can't activate special effects
2- panel tearing/applet's vanishing
3 - youtube/multimedia playback with gray or black boxes where videos should be but with audio

All my ppa's say lucid at the end and i've updated software, do I need to replace all of the ppa's i currently have so they read maverick at the end then update or are these problems a result of something else?

any help would be appreciated.

[gordintoronto]

I don't think you successfully upgraded to Maverick. Can you describe what you did?

[maddbaron]

I don't think you successfully upgraded to Maverick. Can you describe what you did?

de-enabled my 3rd party ppa's
changed from LTS to normal
used my ethernet cable instead of wifi
upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10
the upgrade took a ton of hours then rebooted
spent two weeks tryin to fix my display
fixed my display now i can't enable special effects and my video online and offline won't play but the sound of them will.

[Frogs Hair]

Your Youtube problem sounds flash related , I switched to FF4 beta and had use flash aid to correct the same problem with one site . The other thing I was wondering is , what proprietary drivers and graphics card are you using ? The proprietary drivers you had on 10.04 would have been removed during the upgrade if you did not remove them yourself.

[maddbaron]

Your Youtube problem sounds flash related , I switched to FF4 beta and had use flash aid to correct the same problem with one site . The other thing I was wondering is , what proprietary drivers and graphics card are you using ? The proprietary drivers you had on 10.04 would have been removed during the upgrade if you did not remove them yourself.

I fixed the drivers, i removed then reinstalled them didn't know i had to do that at the time but now they are installed.

i fixed my video on my pc problem except in vlc player where the video is now black & white and squeezed to the left of the screen...but mplayer and totem work normally again

flash, i removed my flash player and installed the nonfree version which had a maverick in it, the other flash still had lucid but i still get the gray screen. what is the flash aid?

any idea on how i can enable effects on desktop? when I try it says driver not found but i check and the system says driver installed and working properly. is there a different driver for desktop effects?

[tophousetim]

Take a look at the following. Many have had this problem. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653933

[Frogs Hair]

If you installed the recommended driver from additional / hardware and drivers that is the correct one. I suggest you search for threads desktop effects because many people have had the same problem. I'm assuming you have Compiz installed.

Flash aid was developed by a Ubuntu forum member , you can read the description at the link.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-aid/

[maddbaron]

If you installed the recommended driver from additional / hardware and drivers that is the correct one. I suggest you search for threads desktop effects because many people have had the same problem. I'm assuming you have Compiz installed.

Flash aid was developed by a Ubuntu forum member , you can read the description at the link.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-aid/

yeah i have compiz installed, i have removed and reinstalled it thinking it was wrong but its not i guess... i'll keep looking for a fix...gotta update my ppa's though i was hoping to find a script to do so automatically but none exists lol...

thanks for the help and the link

[maddbaron]

Take a look at the following. Many have had this problem. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653933

i see there is no fix still... this sucks i miss compiz, i can't activate the unity 2d desktop yet either... i hope its fixed soon