cannot enable visual effects?

Hi i m Dinesh. I just installed ubuntu 9.04 on my compaq laptop today and i m a complete newbie to ubuntu. So please be patient. When i click on System>Preferences>Appearance>Visual Effects, its set to NONE. I m unable to change it to Normal. It tries to search for drivers then gives this error, "visual effects could not be enabled".

Please help, Thanks, Dinesh.

dineshrathod2216 said: Hi i m Dinesh. I just installed ubuntu 9.04 on my compaq laptop today and i m a complete newbie to ubuntu. So please be patient.

When i click on System>Preferences>Appearance>Visual Effects, its set to NONE. I m unable to change it to Normal. It tries to search for drivers then gives this error, "visual effects could not be enabled".

Please help, Thanks, Dinesh.

what kind of vid card do you have? have you installed the restricted driver? you can find out your card type, by opening a terminal (applications -> accessories) and pasting in:

sudo lshw -C display

while you are in the terminal, also run this command:

sudo apt-get update

this command will update the repository lists on your PC, including new packages. after updating it, any restricted drivers for your device should be detected, and a message will appear in your notification area, indicating that new hardware drivers are available.

Its a compaq laptop and the motherboard is Intel 965M so i have inbuild video memory of aroung 512 MB.

I don't use intel, so I can only give so much advice, but the intel 3d driver is called xserver-xorg-video-intel and you can install it manually at the terminal with:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel

after that, reboot, and see.

if your graphics are all messed up afterward, reboot, and when it's just getting started, enter the grub menu (press escape when it tells you to). select recovery mode. then select root terminal. then enter this command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

hi i ran the above command and it gave me this : *-display:0 UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 03 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 *-display:1 UNCLAIMED description: Display controller product: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2.1 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1 version: 03 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 Did this help?

i also tried to update the repo and it gave me an update for my wireless driver.