Ubuntu
compiz package

No driver for visual effects in Karmic

Asked by Kahfi

Choosing visual effects appears massage "Desktop effects could not be enabled", but when I'm using Jaunty it's running well. The same problem with running Compiz fusion make desktop a little freeze (not work). My hardware using Intel GMA 4500mhd DirectX 10.0 Graphics Controller. Please, help me how to handle this !

This the ouput lhsw -C display

*-display:0
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 07
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:28 memory:f4000000-f43fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) ioport:1800(size=8)
  *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
       description: Display controller
       product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2.1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
       version: 07
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f4400000-f44fffff

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You will need to form an xorg.conf file to get the video driver for this running.

Here is a way to get a decent res but I dont think your VGA chip supports 3D accelleration under Linux which is needed for silly desktop efects:
http://www.claudiocamacho.org/tech/sr11m_debian.php#graphics

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#2

Andrew, the link is 404. Page uses id now.
http://www.claudiocamacho.org/?q=graphic

Khafi,
hope this helps in the meantime.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=44339ca98080aa66fb003a89efd094cd&t=963386&page=21

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Kahfi (mkahfi-o) said : 		#3

Trying to form xorg.conf file make blank screen appears after splash, can't reset except by pressing on-off button in my Laptop. Visual effects is working by running in live CD, when I'm retun back xorg.conf .

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