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compiz not working, only 2 screen resoulutions, no whitelisted driver??? help me!

Asked by Schindler

ramesh@Jothimani:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UniChrome Pro IGP (rev 01)
i have tried to intstall XGL but i am unable to login after installing it.When i enter user name/pwd screen flashes and comes back to login screen.Plz help me to enable desktop effects.Plz!!!!!!!!!!

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Theodotos Andreou (theodotos) said : 		#1

If you are using hardy try this boot into recovery mode (single user mode). Then select the option to fix X.

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Schindler (schindlershadow) said : 		#2

and how do i do that? oh and ty for responding! =)

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Schindler (schindlershadow) said : 		#3

ok i did it...... it doseint seem to do anything...... no problems where fixed.... but thx 4 trying! i still need help!!

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

Please simply press ESC when you see the GRUB row at pc boot. Then select the row

Ubuntu Hardy ..... (recovery mode)

and press enter then select from the window that will appear ( after a while) just follow the instructions....

Hope This helps

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Schindler (schindlershadow) said : 		#5

lol thx but i did that and it dident help =_( but thx for trying!

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#6

for your video card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01)

please try to install the xserver-xorg-video-openchrome package

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-openchrome

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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Schindler (schindlershadow) said : 		#7

ok.... i did it.... now what?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#8

Restart your pc to see if it works

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install compizconfig-settings-manager

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Look under menu system->preferences....

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Schindler (schindlershadow) said : 		#9

i did that..... still don't work it says desktop effects could not be enabled!! plz help me i don't want to leave Ubuntu!! thx 4 helping tho!

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Schindler (schindlershadow) said : 		#10

i still need help!!

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Schindler (schindlershadow) said : 		#11

ummm can some1 help??

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Schindler (schindlershadow) said : 		#12

oh and i have the same problom on my laptop! help!

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Ptero-4 (ptero-4) said : 		#13

AFAIK S3 unichrome doesn't support compiz-fusion.

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Schindler (schindlershadow) said : 		#14

lol

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Schindler (schindlershadow) said : 		#15

what about the screen resolution?

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Best Theodotos Andreou (theodotos) said : 		#16

OK to change the display resolution in Gnome:

First enable the display configuration to appear in menu:

System->Preferences->Main menu

From the left selection choose "Other" and tick on "Display"

No the display configurator is available at:

Applications->Other->Display

From the Display configurator choose the correct resolution your monitor supports.

And finally from System->Preferences->Screen resolution choose the desired resolution.

Note this may cause some instability in your display that's why it was hidden by default. In that case do a ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the X server and try again

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Schindler (schindlershadow) said : 		#17

Thanks Theodotos Andreou, that solved my question.

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Schindler (schindlershadow) said : 		#18

wasent exact but thx to u i can now change screen res! hey thx!