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I cannot change my "Visual Effect" to "Normal" from none.

Asked by pepperblue

I'm Using Ubuntu jaunty. Asrock motherboard intel processor(P4), model p4vm8. My problem is i cannot change my visual style...

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Steven Danna (ssd7) said : 		#1

Can you do the following:

1) Open a terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal)
2) Type the following command and press <Enter>:

sudo lshw -C display

3) Note that lshw is the lowercase of LSHW.
4) Type your password and press <Enter> when prompted. You password will not display on screen, so type carefully.
5) Copy and Paste the output here.

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pepperblue (ayashif) said : 		#2

This's the output i got:

*-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: CN400/PM800/PM880/PN800/PN880 [S3 UniChrome Pro]
       vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=32 mingnt=2

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pepperblue (ayashif) said : 		#3

And also my monitor is not getting detected. My monitor is HP 55 15" analog monitor. But display is quite good. I checked this through display settings.

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pepperblue (ayashif) said : 		#4

Danna, please reply...

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Best Steven Danna (ssd7) said : 		#5

Unfortunately, I'm not sure if you will be able to get desktop effects working with that card. I've done a bit of research on the card and have found that both the openchrome driver (the one you are likely using) and the driver from Via have had problems with 3D acceleration. (3D Acceleration is required for desktop effects) I have also been unable to find confirmation of somebody getting 3D acceleration to work with Ubuntu 9.04, however, there are people who seem to have it working with earlier versions of Ubuntu.

Since I am not familiar with your card and since I don't have one with which to test directions, I'm a bit hesitant to refer you to any specific set of directions I have found.

The directions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UniChrome seems fairly straightforward. If you follow them, be aware that Ctrl+Alt+Backspace no longer restarts the X server, so you are better off just restarting the machine.

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pepperblue (ayashif) said : 		#6

oof, i try to buy new graphics card. the VIA graphics card sucks too much off my PC.. Thanks for ur answer.

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pepperblue (ayashif) said : 		#7

Thanks Steven Danna, that solved my question.