desktop effects gone after upgrade to Maverick
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) Used to have desktop effects (10.04), now I don't (10.10) - upgraded, via update manager, yesterday (see date). Checked - chipset is not on compiz blacklist. Is using i915 driver... $ lsmod | grep video video 18712 1 i915 output 1883 1 video $ lsmod | grep i915 i915 291004 2 drm_kms_helper 30200 1 i915 drm 168054 2 i915,drm_kms_helper intel_agp 26360 2 i915 i2c_algo_bit 5168 1 i915 video 18712 1 i915 $ dmesg | grep drm [ 24.373104] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 24.627127] [drm] set up 7M of stolen space [ 25.100789] [drm] initialized overlay support [ 26.545217] fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device [ 26.545219] drm: registered panic notifier [ 26.545500] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0 $ grep -i "Direct rendering" /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- does not return anything [ 28.314] (II) FBDEV(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section "Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32 [ 28.620] (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument ...... lots and lots of this - followed by: [ 28.626] (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument [ 28.626] (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument [ 28.653] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable [ 28.653] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable Recall - under 10.4, desktop effects were enabled prior to upgrade. Possibly due to fbdev stuff, but don't know where to look. http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-x.../msg00516.html ... this is the only major change I can think of here. re: http://forum.compiz.org/viewtopic.ph...11944&start=10 ... compiz cannot work with fbdev ... but I see lsmod reporting that i915 is in use and i915.modeset=1 is on the kernel line. [ 28.269] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=909ecd8f-e404-46dd-8f92-3f86149fbfcd ro i915.modeset=1 quiet splash Don't know where to look next. There are a large number of threads in different forums concerning this; nothing coherent discovered. |
Did you try simply re-enabling them using GNOME Appearance Preferences? Sometimes upgrades simply nuke your custom settings.
And if not, have you tried reconfiguring X? Code:
sudo Xorg -configure |
After the upgrade, there were no desktop effects. I went right to GNOME Appearance Preferences and reselected the advanced desktop effects. After a bit the dialog told me that it could not set them.
Code:
$ sudo Xorg -configure |
Wow - things have changed since I last had to do anything at this level...
$ sudo service gdm stop so, anyway - sudo Xorg -configure had no effect, as expected. next suggestion please... [edit] note: a clean install to identical HW also has this problem. So - unlikely to be an upgrade vs clean install issue. It looks like this is how Ubuntu is set up these days. butbutbut: promising lead: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1601310 ... and found a bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...8?comments=all http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...ostcount=2%20_ Quote:
Code:
$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:compiz/ppa |
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