Desktop effects could not be enabled after installing compiz...

albertspade · 07-22-2009, 01:52 AM

Hi...
Yesterday I installed compiz fusion on my system having Fedora 11. It got installed properly. Then I installed emerald themes, even that got installed properly. But after rebooting the the system when I tried to enable desktop effects, its giving me an error "Desktop effects could not be enabled". Even my resolution has been changed to 800x600, previously which is 1024 by something. Also the basic effects of wobbles and all are gone. Will you please help me to fix it.
Thanks.

jdkaye · 07-22-2009, 02:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by albertspade

Hi...
Yesterday I installed compiz fusion on my system having Fedora 11. It got installed properly. Then I installed emerald themes, even that got installed properly. But after rebooting the the system when I tried to enable desktop effects, its giving me an error "Desktop effects could not be enabled". Even my resolution has been changed to 800x600, previously which is 1024 by something. Also the basic effects of wobbles and all are gone. Will you please help me to fix it.
Thanks.

What video card are you using and what driver for that card? Is 3D accleration enabled?
cheers,
jdk

albertspade · 07-22-2009, 02:47 AM

Here is some information about my machine :
- Make/model : Intel
- Processor : Pentium 4 (3.0 GHZ)
- RAM : 512
- Graphics card : Intel Corporation 82915G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
- Which graphics driver you are using (free, non-free) : I installed nvidia

May be this will be helpful.
Thanks.

jdkaye · 07-22-2009, 03:02 AM

Why did you install nvidia? You don't have a nvidia card?
Intel appears to have a driver for your card but it may also be supported by your kernel.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...=8203&lang=eng
cheers,
jdk

albertspade · 07-22-2009, 03:07 AM

Will you please tell me how to install them?
Whenever I try to install any software in linux from command prompt it gives dependency error or something else.
Thanks.

jdkaye · 07-22-2009, 03:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by albertspade

Will you please tell me how to install them?
Whenever I try to install any software in linux from command prompt it gives dependency error or something else.
Thanks.

Sorry I could only tell you in general terms. I'm running an ATI Radeon graphics card myself. I'd suggest you try the xserver-xorg driver which I believe is called i810. Just try that in your Xorg.conf file instead of nvidia (or whatever you have now). That should be easy enough.
cheers,
jdk

albertspade · 07-22-2009, 03:30 AM

These are the contents of my xorg.conf file :

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Will you please tell me what changes I am supposed to do here.
Sorry for this but I have not done all this before, that is why facing problems.
Thanks.

albertspade · 07-22-2009, 03:57 AM

One more thing I want to tell when I open Gnome Compiz Preferences it gives me following error:

An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for
gnome-compiz-preferences. Some of your configuration settings may not work
properly.
Type mismatch: Expected list, got string
Type mismatch: Expected list, got string
Type mismatch: Expected list, got string

May be it will help.
Thanks.

jdkaye · 07-22-2009, 04:18 AM

Yeah, that makes sense. If you're using the vesa driver then there's no way you're going to get any special effects. You really need to install the proper driver if you want to get full use of your graphics card. You can either try the intel one you downloaded or else try your luck with the driver supplied by your kernel.
Cheers,
jdk

albertspade · 07-22-2009, 04:29 AM

Thanks Dear.
I don't know where to find intel drivers and how to install them.
I think my graphics driver support 3D effects, because before installing compiz I am able to get basic desktop effects with my machine which were installed by default when I installed Fedora 11. Even my resolution was good at that time.
May be I'll try to reinstall the system if there is no solution for my problem.

peeths003 · 07-22-2009, 07:23 AM

Dont give up so easily, unistall the nvidia driver, install the X11-drv and give a try , I have compix fusion running on an intel 965G chipset. you have to use indirect rendering .

Use the below thread for reference , I used this thread to solve the issue

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http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=8561

albertspade · 07-22-2009, 11:37 PM

Thanks for your suggestion.
I will definitely try it.

albertspade · 07-23-2009, 12:08 AM

Hi Peeth...
I gone through your thread.
Sorry to say but I didn't understood much from there.
Even I dont know how to install X11 drivers.
Will you please help me in this regard?
Thanks...

albertspade · 07-23-2009, 12:15 AM

Also when I click compiz fusion icon from system tools my screen turns white and I have to restart it to get it back.

albertspade · 07-23-2009, 12:16 AM

One more thing I am using GNOME.