Compiz-Check -- no more "Desktop effects could not be enabled"

I wondered as much...cheers for the info.

So, any ideas then, seeing as I'm not running two monitors?

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Originally Posted by Forlong

ATI Rage chips are not capable of running Compiz, sorry.

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I'm not surprised. Oh well, thanks.

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Originally Posted by berilac

I wondered as much...cheers for the info.

So, any ideas then, seeing as I'm not running two monitors?

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Since I have no direct experience myself with Nvidia hardware, I am not sure what all those custom options in your xorg.conf do.

What you could try, is removing the driver via System → Administration → Hardware Drivers.
Afterwards, run this:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

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which will reset your xorg.conf

Then reboot and "enable" the driver again. Ubuntu should then take care of setting the xorg.conf right.

So you see this purely as a xorg.conf issue?

But beyond that, I installed these drivers using an nVidia package and though it is by far the best solution I have managed to date, it doesn't show up in Hardware Drivers. Apparently there are no proprietary drivers on my system...

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Originally Posted by berilac

So you see this purely as a xorg.conf issue?

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Since the only problem seems to be texture_from_pixmap, that's my best guess.

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Originally Posted by berilac

But beyond that, I installed these drivers using an nVidia package and though it is by far the best solution I have managed to date, it doesn't show up in Hardware Drivers. Apparently there are no proprietary drivers on my system...

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Well, in that case I am sorry, you have to ask someone who is knowledgeable about whatever way you chose to install the driver.
My knowledge is limited to Ubuntu's way of handling such things.

But did you put those options in the xorg.conf yourself?

thanks again Forlong.

If I can solve the pixmap issue, is it likely to cure the desktop effects problem, or could it be separate issue?

The xorg.conf I'm using was created originally by nvidia-glx-legacy drivers I believe. But I edited it, only to correct a resolution issue.
Recently I tried add the 'AddARGBGLX....' line, to no avail...

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Originally Posted by berilac

If I can solve the pixmap issue, is it likely to cure the desktop effects problem, or could it be separate issue?

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I think so.
Try un-commenting any option where you're not sure what it does in the xorg.conf. It might help.

i've read through nvidia-xconfig's user manual, as it outlines what options are available.
i tried a few that seemed relevant, and have also tried disabling various features in xorg.conf.

all i managed was to worsten the output from compiz-check.
i am now back to where i was before, and no better off...i'm not sure what else to try

Is there any way to get rid of the driver you installed manually, so you can use the one offered by Ubuntu?

I thought the only one offered by Ubuntu was nv (for my old vid card). And if I remember correctly, this whole debacle started with it...I thought it is incapabale of using gpl, or something similar...

Unless you know something I don't (hope so) :)

Also, since I've been playing with xorg.conf, I have noticed that a lot of settings are being set (true, for instance) as default, thus when I comment them it makes no difference; I actually have to actively disable them or change to false.
Could this mean that thare is a setting I can't see that could be causing the problem? Where else could X be getting info from???