unable to enable visual effects in ubuntu 9.10
 

unable to enable visual effects in ubuntu 9.10


i have just installed ubuntu 9.10 . i ma facing a big pblms


1.when i tried to enable visual effects
error occurs and it says 'visual effects cant be enabled '
i m completely new ..plz help me out..

Some of the results i obtained

pavan@pavan-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -C video
[sudo] password for pavan:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for pavan:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:cfe00000-cfe7ffff ioport:8800(size=8) memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) memory:cfe80000-cfebffff


pavan@pavan-desktop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller


Please help me out..
Help me try figure out some way...

Pavan

OK, it seems fairly simple as to what the problem is here. Are you trying to enable those functions with the bone-stock video driver? It seems to me you do not have the Open GL support enabled (usually automatic when you have the most up-to-date driver). Thankfully it's ubuntu and that can be addressed pretty easily. Somewhere in your control panel (settings, system, I cant remember which) is an icon related to hardware, might be a chore to find it but its there. Could even be in your system tray (pardon the windows terminology here) and IF its found, click it and there SHOULD be an option in there to update to restricted drivers for your video (if it hasnt already) and when that's all done and you restart X, it SHOULD work well enough to enable the function.