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won't allow visual effects on VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics

Asked by Ben Lugo

i try to change the desktop visual effects and tells me it came change the visual effects. When i installed Ubuntu i have to add (i915.modeset=0 xforcevesa) on the control line because i was getting a black screen every time i tried to boot. I think my graphics card is giving me a problem.

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

Please copy and paste the result of this terminal command:

lspci | grep -i vga

Thank you

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Ben Lugo (moistback07) said : 		#2

I copy and pasted that in the the terminal command and it gave me this error

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

It's not an error, it's the output.

There seems to be a PPA which will help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1464239

You can add the ppa with:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:glasen/intel-driver; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

HTH

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Ben Lugo (moistback07) said : 		#4

What is this supposed to do. I did it and it still want let me apply visual effects.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

It installs a different intel driver. You may need to use an xorg.conf file to get a better display

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Ben Lugo (moistback07) said : 		#6

do i need to put this in terminal command? I did and it says xorg.conf command not found.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

because its a configuration file, not a command.

You will need to run:

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

(it will be BLANK). You can then search around for sample files you can use in there to make it run well.

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