I'm trying to get Desktop Effects enabled on Ubuntu 9.04, but I'm getting the typical "white screen of death". It's claiming I have no proprietary drivers in use, I do have an aftermarket graphics card... I just can't get to the point of having the option of enabling it. Help?
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What chipset is the graphics card, might be able to track down some terminal commands to make full use of it.
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Quote: from espresso8097 at 12:40 am on May 20, 2009
What chipset is the graphics card, might be able to track down some terminal commands to make full use of it.
That's the thing, I have no clue! I haven't booted this machine in a while, and I'm a total Linux noob. Is there a terminal command to check my hardware?
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Quote: from espresso8097 at 12:40 am on May 20, 2009
What chipset is the graphics card, might be able to track down some terminal commands to make full use of it.
That's the thing, I have no clue! I haven't booted this machine in a while, and I'm a total Linux noob. Is there a terminal command to check my hardware?
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The Ubuntu forums can be rather helpful. Compiz Fusion is rather picky about the graphics card drivers it allows you to use with it. Do some digging around the Ubuntu forums and you'll find a nice work around.
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Try using Fedora. Ubuntu is really picky with graphics cards (like most of linux). Desktop effects never work for me, but they somehow magically worked in Fedora. If you want, find the graphics card driver fedora uses and install that into ubuntu so you don't have to change your OS.
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