Desktop effects could not be enabled... "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM"

Asked by arpit

parikh@ubuntu:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)

each time i try to enable extra effects it says "serching for driver" in new pop up but no help....
can some one please help me...
Thanks in Advance....
Arpit

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#1

Please tell us which release of Ubuntu are you using..?

Thank you

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arpit (arpit8) said :
#2

Ubuntu 8.10

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said :
#3

Whats your output of?

glxinfo | grep direct

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Best stanelie (1-launchpad-net-stanelie-com) said :
#4

I have the exact same issue, same graphics chipset, same lspci output. However, I am using Jaunty.

The output of glxinfo is "direct rendering: Yes"

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arpit (arpit8) said :
#5

some how it started working now..
Thanks for the replay tho..

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stanelie (1-launchpad-net-stanelie-com) said :
#6

Can you set it back to "unsolved"?

I still have the issue.

Thanks

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Terry Martin (chunkxzor) said :
#7

I'm having the same issue as stanelie, i turned my laptop on and got the same message.

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esdub (mid-rony) said :
#8

Having the same issue on an Acer Aspire one ZG5 on 8.10 as well. Stopped working after a recent update I believe.