beccatoria
October 19th, 2011, 02:13 PM
Hi guys,
I run 10.04 and have never had any issues with desktop effects until this point.
My computer crashed, I rebooted it and desktop effects were set to "none". I tried to enable them to "extra" and it told me that it was searching for drivers but then threw up an error that that desktop effects could not be enabled.
I went to the Hardware Drivers section but it just says that there are no proprietary drivers in use and gives me no further options - it's a blank window, essentially. I think this is correct, though, because I do not recall previously having used any proprietary graphics drivers on this machine - unfortunately, I'm not 100% certain as I haven't touched that side of the computer since I set the machine up over a year ago.
All the help I can find online seems to revolve around reinstalling nvidia or other proprietary drivers, but I don't have that option as nothing comes up as available for me and I don't know how to reinstall the driver I have at the moment.
I did find out about Compiz Check and ran it with the following results:
Gathering information about your system...
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
Driver in use: intel
Rendering method: AIGLX
Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...
Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [FAIL]
Checking for non power of two support... [FAIL]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig... [FAIL]
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [SKIP]
At least one check had to be skipped:
Error: Unable to detect maximum 3D texture size
Any help would be deeply appreciated. I don't want to have to reinstall everything on this machine and I'd rather not upgrade until 12.04 is released. But I really need to sort this out.
I don't have a huge amount of Ubuntu knowledge - I'm still pretty much a newb, so if there's any other information you need, please let me know.
I run 10.04 and have never had any issues with desktop effects until this point.
My computer crashed, I rebooted it and desktop effects were set to "none". I tried to enable them to "extra" and it told me that it was searching for drivers but then threw up an error that that desktop effects could not be enabled.
I went to the Hardware Drivers section but it just says that there are no proprietary drivers in use and gives me no further options - it's a blank window, essentially. I think this is correct, though, because I do not recall previously having used any proprietary graphics drivers on this machine - unfortunately, I'm not 100% certain as I haven't touched that side of the computer since I set the machine up over a year ago.
All the help I can find online seems to revolve around reinstalling nvidia or other proprietary drivers, but I don't have that option as nothing comes up as available for me and I don't know how to reinstall the driver I have at the moment.
I did find out about Compiz Check and ran it with the following results:
Gathering information about your system...
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
Driver in use: intel
Rendering method: AIGLX
Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...
Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [FAIL]
Checking for non power of two support... [FAIL]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig... [FAIL]
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [SKIP]
At least one check had to be skipped:
Error: Unable to detect maximum 3D texture size
Any help would be deeply appreciated. I don't want to have to reinstall everything on this machine and I'd rather not upgrade until 12.04 is released. But I really need to sort this out.
I don't have a huge amount of Ubuntu knowledge - I'm still pretty much a newb, so if there's any other information you need, please let me know.