Desktop effects could not be enabled

chango77745 · 05-10-2008, 09:58 PM

I am trying to add extra effects to my ubuntu 7.10 and everytime I try I get this error message

"Desktop effects could not be enabled"

Anyone know why??

Additional information: 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device

briced · 05-11-2008, 12:24 AM

be care ful if your video card cant handle it you might find yourself re-installing Ubuntu. I turned on the effects and had a black screen noway to fix it.

dudeman41465 · 05-11-2008, 12:30 AM

If you get a black screen, ctrl+alt+f1 followed by:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove compiz

then

Code:

sudo shutdown -r now

and you "should" be back up and running.

In response to the original post you may not have compiz installed, try:

Code:

sudo apt-get install compiz

and then restart and see if the option is available.

chango77745 · 05-11-2008, 01:00 AM

It says compiz is already the newest version

dudeman41465 · 05-11-2008, 01:11 AM

Then it's probably just that your video card can't handle it, you could try going into the Compiz configuration manager thingy that's somewhere in the menus and turning off a lot of the things you don't want and only turning on specific things, then try turning on the Desktop Effects.

chango77745 · 05-11-2008, 12:05 PM

What are the video card requirements to set the system to extra effects on compiz-fusion?