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

[ryclegman]

Ok well i did this and got this output........

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Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: nVidia Corporation Geforce 9600 GT 512mb (rev a1)
Driver in use: nv
Rendering method: None

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system... [SKIP]

Checking for hardware/setup problems... [SKIP]

At least one check had to be skipped:
Error: No rendering method in use (AIGLX, Xgl or Nvidia)

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How do i render it so it works?

[Forlong]

How do i render it so it works?

You need to install the nvidia driver through System → Administration → Hardware Drivers

fglrxinfo: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

glxinfo: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

There's obviously something seriously wrong with your driver.
How did you install it?


P.S. you don't need to "quote" the previous posts here, it's not a mailing list.

[johnnyhop]

Here's my compiz-check output:

Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04
Desktop environment: KDE
Graphics chip: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200]
Driver in use: radeon
Rendering method: Xgl

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [SKIP]
Checking for non power of two support... [SKIP]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig... [SKIP]
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [SKIP]

Apparently my Radeon card is too old for the current fglrx driver. I don't see a hint of a driver installed when sudo lshw and lsmod makes no mention of fglrx or r200 but does show drm in a line with radeon. Would like to try the r200 driver haven't had success downloading it.

[Forlong]

You don't need Xgl with the radeon driver.
Remove it:

sudo apt-get remove xserver-xgl

Then restart X and try again.


And yes, the 7200 is not supported by fglrx.


edit: was there no message, why the very last check had to be skipped?

[Ajsplace]

Thanx alot Forlong. I will install the nvidia drivers. Can i just uninstall the other driver and start fresh. Can u tell me how to fix what ive done wrong and start over.

[Forlong]

Ajsplace, you have an ATI card, you can't install the nvidia drivers.

How to remove the fglrx driver depends on how you installed it in the first place.

[Ajsplace]

Oh ok, I was responding to message # 62 where it says that i need to install the nvidia drivers. Please bear with me. I just recently made the move over from windows.

How can i just unistall the drivers and restart fresh? I installed the ati drivers by downloading directly from site and from the repository. Im kind of lost now lol. What should i do?

[Forlong]

Oh ok, I was responding to message # 62 where it says that i need to install the nvidia drivers.

Oh, I see... I was responding to ryclegman there. Always have a look at the quote above the reply.

How can i just unistall the drivers and restart fresh? I installed the ati drivers by downloading directly from site and from the repository. Im kind of lost now lol. What should i do?

Frankly, I'm not sure what's the best way to undo that.
Consider starting a thread in a better fitting section of the forum about how to uninstall a manual fglrx installation.

[Ajsplace]

I just unistalled the fglrx. What should i do now to get my desktop effects to start working.

[Forlong]

Please run Compiz-Check again and post the output here.