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k, I've been running Karmic for awhile now, and I had all my desktop effects and eye candy set up perfectly, and then i made the mistake of thinking I knew things about linux.... haha
my flash was running slow, and i was attempting various fixes i found online, including mussing in the xorg.conf. well i somehow managed to disable my laptop's ability to run any sort of eye candy, I know it's capable since i've done it before.
i have the standard Intel integrated graphics card that a million other people have, yadda yadda. the main problem(i believe) is getting to where i can select "Normal" under Visual Effects, but when i try all I get is the lovely "Desktop effects could not be enabled" message. hoorah. any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
well, when I tried to edit the xorg.conf, it was blank, so i tried adding what i needed and it messed stuff up, so deleted the changes i made, so now, as far as I can tell, I still have a blank xorg.conf
hmm...I'm not entirely sure how to delete the xorg.conf haha, any help that would be appreciated.
and as far as reconfiguring it, that was one of the first things i tried, but i did it again just now, for measure, and still get the fun little "Desktop effects could not be enabled." message
The new release of X (which comes with Karmic) no longer requires an xorg.conf. Integrated Intel cards should be autoconfigured (I have one on my laptop, which also runs Karmic).
My advice to you is to delete xorg.conf with
Code:
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and then reinstall the intel driver (called xserver-xorg-video-intel)
Code:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
If you get a message saying "program already installed" you can download the .deb file from one of these links and select the "reinstall package" option.
NB: If you dont know how to configure your firewall, just skip the keyserver step. You will get a security warning, but go ahead and say yes to install the package.
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