can't enable compiz effect on intrepid with intel card

Same here.
But I still can start compiz from terminal:
compiz --replace &

Seg fault here too on Intel 855GM with compiz 1:0.7.7+git20080807-0ubuntu12 on Intrepid.

ian@laptop:~$ compiz --replace &
Checking for Xgl: [2] 11827
ian@laptop:~$ not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
not present.
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity

ian@laptop:~$ sudo lspci -vvv -s 00:02.0
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Dell Device 0139
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Region 1: Memory at faf80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
 Region 2: I/O ports at c000 [size=8]
 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
 Kernel modules: intelfb

I'm confirming this bug.

I'm getting something like : "Desktop Effects could not be enabled" in Intrepid. This is a regression from Hardy.

$ compiz --replace&
Checking for Xgl: [1] 10911
XXXX@XXXX:~$ not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x768) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: present.
Software rasterizer detected, abortingaborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
Window manager warning: "" found in configuration database is not a valid value for keybinding "toggle_shaded"

$gnome-appearance-properties

(gnome-appearance-properties:10585): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory scalable/animations/small/16x16 of theme oxygen has no size field

(gnome-appearance-properties:10585): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory scalable/animations/small/22x22 of theme oxygen has no size field

(gnome-appearance-properties:10585): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory scalable/animations/small/16x16 of theme default.kde4 has no size field

(gnome-appearance-properties:10585): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory scalable/animations/small/22x22 of theme default.kde4 has no size field

There is no available graphics driver for your system which supports the composite extension, or the current one already supports it.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x768) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: present.
Software rasterizer detected, abortingaborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
Window manager warning: "" found in configuration database is not a valid value for keybinding "toggle_shaded"
Window manager warning: "" found in configuration database is not a valid value for keybinding "toggle_shaded"
[1]+ Done compiz --replace

 status incomplete
 assignee raof

From your Xorg.0.log:
"""
(EE) intel(0): Cannot support DRI with frame buffer width > 2048.
"""
However, that log doesn't seem to indicate _why_ it's setting the
framebuffer width to > 2048. Can you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
please?

That was @ubuntu_demon, who actually appears to have a different bug.

For the first two posters, I'd suspect that you were hit by the accidental install of the nvidia drivers at one point of the Intrepid cycle. Can you check whether any of the nvidia-glx-* packages are installed, and if so, whether removing them fixes the problem for you?

@Chris Halse Rogers:

You are right I was experiencing something else. I solved the problem. I'm able to enable deskop effects after changing 2560 to 2048 in this part of my Xorg.conf :
 SubSection "Display"
  Virtual 2048 1024
  #Virtual 2560 1024
 EndSubSection

I think the screen resolution tool set the frame buffer width to 2560 when I played with multiple monitors.

Degrading the virtual resolution like @ubuntu_daemon did, solved this one for me as well! I also played around with big HDTV-Screens...

Confirming my issue was caused by the presence of the nvidia driver as pointed out by Chris a while back. I'm pretty sure I didnt install them manually but removing them did the trick.

thanks, Ian.

I had the same problem and like f1anker says, when I put this in terminal:

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-*

Compiz "come to live" again. In Hardy Heron I had compiz working perfectly.

I tested this with the Jaunty Alpha 2 LiveCD the X still crashes during startup because memory cannot be allocated properly. It then falls back to "low graphics mode".

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

my issue was related to the nivida driver being automatically installed
along with the correct intel driver. removing the nivida driver fixed the
issue for me.

cheers, Ian

2009/6/26 Robert Ancell <email address hidden>

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue
> for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> can't enable compiz effect on intrepid with intel card
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270122
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> of the bug.
>

I have this problem too:
Não existe driver de vídeo para seu sistema que suporte composição, ou o driver atual já suporta.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Checking screen 1Comparing resolution (1920x1080) to maximum 3D texture size (8192): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: Not present.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
running under gnome seesion, checking for gnomecompat
Checking for Xgl: not present.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format

I've read somewhere it was related to having gnome having metacity composite enabled in gconf-editor (compositing-manager must be turned off, in apps->metacity->general), but It worked partially. It worked for some time, now its back.

Closing bug since it was caused by having the incorrect driver installed for the available hardware.

Daniel: What you pasted says compiz started just fine. If you are having problems please file a new bug.