Ubuntu Multimedia :: Nvidia Won't Enable Visual Effects
Apr 19, 2011
I've just finished my new build and installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.I have in it an MSI N8400GS D512D3H (NVidia Geforce 8400GS) which I thought would work for Ubuntu. After installing Ubuntu the visual effects are disabled, can't even get "Normal" settings in the Appearance dialogue. Updates have all been installed. Apt has been updated. "Hardware Drivers" screen draws a blank. No proprietary drivers listed at all. First time I've actually used a Graphics Card in an Ubuntu install.
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Feb 13, 2011
Your Refresh Rate and Outputs HAS TO be the same freq as your monitor.This overwrites whatever you have set in NVIDIA X Server Settings.I use this on my laptop with an NVidia 8400GS card and on a Revo 3700 (with NVIDIA ION) through SMPlayer and XBMC.You can have choppy free and 'tear free' playback AND visual effects on!
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Jan 26, 2011
I just got a new graphics card (Well, I guess you shouldn't call it a graphics card, it's more of a workstation card) Anyway, the card is the PNY Nvidia Quadro FX 580 and I installed the proper drivers for it (Nvidia 177) But, I'm encountering a problem with enabling the visual effects.Everything was running fine and I was able to use the effects until I enabled "Xinerama" two support both my monitors. Xinerama works fine, but the Visual Effects were reverted back to "None." When I click on "Extra" it searches for graphics drivers then tells me that I should switch to the graphics driver for my on-board graphics (ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver).
The ironic thing is that in the description for the Nvidia 177 driver it says "If you wish to enable desktop effects, this driver is required." It does not say that on the board graphics driver. Any suggestions? I want to start feeling like an Ubuntu user again rather than a windows user.
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May 30, 2011
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 64bit on my system. Upgraded the NVidia driver to the latest one on the NVidia website: 270.41.19 to see if it corrected a problem of when VEs were enable (even Normal not Extra), I got a white or blank screen. I could tell the system was still working because I got the text info bubbles when I moved the mouse; but when I open an app or a window, the screen was blank. After updating the driver; I can see a sharper and faster rendering image but when I enable the VEs I still get the blank screen.
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Sep 26, 2010
I am trying to do some video tutorials at [uRL] on Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 this is the first edition to require desktop effects. When I install it in the VM it isn't enabled right away. when I go to enable it I ran in to the problem that I couldn't find appearance. When I opened appearance from the terminal I couldn't enable Visual effects because mutter is running. How do I drop to the base terminal and enable visual effects?
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Oct 31, 2010
I have downloaded and installed all the required packages but still I am not able to enable the visual effects. Following are my Video Graphics Card details:-
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Whether any drivers need to be installed for this video card or ders any other thing to be done?
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Dec 8, 2009
I recently installed Mint 8 and discovered the same problem. code...
Is there some tweeking I can do, or is this a dead horse?
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Oct 20, 2010
I was using a NVIDIA 7200GS on Ubuntu 10.04 (compiz+emerald+cairo) but it broken for over-temperature so I use my onboard graphpic intel 945G now.
I installed the intel drivers but couldnt enable Visual Effects. So I decided install Ubuntu 10.10 after that everything was Ok. I could enable Visual Effects and use compiz+emerald.
I added app x-updates [URL] and I updated my ubuntu. The kernel was updated. After that when I reboot ubuntu the visual effects was disable.
I cant enable Visual Effects on Ubuntu 10.10 with my onboard graphic card intel 945G.
When I try to enable, the ubuntu searches video drivers but It doesn't find anything. Dont understand why it searches drivers.
Some information about my problem:
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a@desktop:~$ glxinfo | grep "rendering"
direct rendering: Yes
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a@desktop:~$ ./compiz-check
Gathering information about your system...
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Apr 29, 2011
I have just installed ubuntu 11.01 and I'd like to enable the visual effects. I have a touchsmart 600 Running this:
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lspci | grep VGA
Results on this:
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jaya@jaya-ubuntu:~$ lspci | grep VGA
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9300] (rev b1)
and running this:
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/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
Results on this:
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jaya@jaya-ubuntu:~$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce G200/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06
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Oct 3, 2009
I have a problem and i hope you can help me fix this.
the problem is that when i want to enable the visual effects by system>preferences>apearance and i select the visual effects nothing happends and i get a box that says could not enable the visual effects.
soo my question is wath is wrong? do i need to download something? or can i not use it i have a integraded grhaphics card a x3100 its a dell inspiron 1525
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Dec 9, 2009
I recently migrated from windows to linux .i installed ubuntu 9.10 on my 32 bit system i faced this pblm .when i tried to enable visual effects
error occurs and it says 'visual effects cant be enabled.i tried this
System->Administration->Hardware Drivers.But window appeared saying ''no proprietary drivers are in use on this system''..If i have to install them what i need to do .
my graphic card info is as code...
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Aug 29, 2010
Can't enable 3d effects on lucid lynx even if restricted nvidia driver (v195.36.24) is installed and activated. Actually 3D effects were working with compiz etc, but at a given moment -not sure if after the final release of the 10.04 - they stopped working, and now it always fails to enable them.
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May 14, 2010
Cant enable desktop effects Nvidia 9200M GS after update to Lucid Lynx
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Jan 24, 2010
I'm running Karmic on an Acer Aspire AO751h and very aware of the issues regarding the GMA500 ans psb drivers, and after reading all the forums I've finally accomplished to make it work just fine. Last week it performed an update via the update manager and since then I haven't been able to restore/run any of the compiz settings and found out that the problem is that it doesn't let me turn on my visual effects under the appearance settings. When I attempt to set them as normal or extra, it starts "searching for available drivers" then the screen blinks several times, goes black, hides every window and just shows me my desktop background and then come back again and displays "Desktop effects could not be enabled". As I mentioned before, Compiz was running fine and I had no issues with the visual effects prior to the last update perfomed a week ago. Can you help me please?? If you need further information I'll be more than glad to provide them tou you, this is driving me nuts!
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Apr 20, 2010
I want to enable extra visual effects on my Laptop but when I select it a windows pops up saying 'Desktop Effects could not be enabled'
explain it in dummies terms i am 14 and just learning the basics of linux
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Feb 9, 2009
Where can I see which buttons create the visual effects (Nvidia)? eg. cube .
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Feb 3, 2010
I have ubuntu 9.10 I have the ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series [1002:9598]video card. I dont know what it is but i want to enable extra visual effects. unfortunally a message stating "searching for drivers" appears, eventuall folowed by " Visual Effects can not be enabled" i think this is due to the drivers obviosly.
what are the drivers I need for linux (if any) for my specific video card? what do I need to do? also which video card are best fit for ubuntu/ linux? note: I dont know what it is, but originally when I first installed ubuntu I did something and the visual effects had worked had worked and up until recently i may or may not have of messed with any thing could i have of touched something
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Jun 28, 2010
I'm currently running 10.04, when I went to go turn on visual effects it gave me a prompt to install an nVidia driver, after installation was complete it said I had to restart. When I start it up the screen flickers from being on and off, it then finally stops at being on but nothing shows up. Please help. My graphics card is nVidia G210M. Sony Vaio.
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Feb 27, 2010
I like my wobbly windows, love 'em. Recently on the latest ATI manual driver update they went away. From boot, log into desktop, my pidgin window defaults to open. Can move it for about 1.5 seconds and be wobbly then the screen does it's reinitialize thing and the window becomes non-wobbled again. At any time I can go to System > Preferences > Appearance > Visual Effects and enable the effects and they work without issue. So, start up with visual effects, something right away turns them off, I can turn them back on at any time and they will stay on. I don't think its actually anything to do with my graphics cards drivers - those seem to be fine. Rather I believe it is a Gnome setting somewhere. I have tried setting my Visual Effects to None, rebooting setting them back to where I like them and rebooting again in case it was a corrupted setting.
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Jun 26, 2011
I have new hardware and I'm doing a dual boot, hoping that Ubuntu will be my primary OS, but I'm having trouble ringing it out. I installed Ultimate Edition 2.6.1 and in the past with an old machine I could turn on visual effects. With this machine, when I try to, it says it's looking for a driver, blinks a bit and then comes back with a message saying "Desktop visual effects cannot be enabled."
I assume that I don't have the nVidia driver loaded. When I go to Hardware Drivers, it says "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system." In synaptic, the latest driver does not show up. I followed the instructions on this site that someone put up which required adding some lines to the "Blacklist" then purging old drivers. It said to expect an error and what to do then, but I never got the error. When I tried to do the rest of the commands anyway, nothing seemed to happen. One of the steps was to download the latest driver, which I did. It was a .run file...........
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Mar 21, 2010
Still new to the ubuntu world, here's my issue short and quick. Card seems to work fine until I try to change visual effects to "Extra". At that time the desktop goes black, but I can still see both bars 'top&bottom' and any windows, I am sure you know as well as i that support for the 7500 seems scarce.........
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Mar 24, 2010
Basically when trying to activate Normal or Extra visual effects on a new karmic installation, I get the error message "The Composite extension is not available".
Here is my xorg:
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Feb 28, 2010
I'm trying to enable the Nvidia drivers so I can use the Desktop effects and play games but when I go to Systen -->Administration-->Hardware drivers It say that There are no proprietary drivers in use. install the Nvidia driver?
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May 14, 2010
When I go to change the Visual Effects settings from Normal to either of the other 2 choices, the screen goes black and nothing happens. Could this be a driver issue? Should I buy a video card instead of using on-board and if so, which ones work the best with Ubuntu?
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Dec 21, 2010
I have just finished installing Ubuntu Studio in my machine and downloaded and installed the Nvidia drivers. I was so excited about using the desktop visual effects that I had seen in some advertising. But first, I just found 3 options in the Appearences config none, normal and extra. Where are desktop effects such as windows trasparence, the cube an others?
Second, and worst, I enabled the "extra" options and found its effects pleasant, but I could not use the for any longer because when I launch Rosegarden with desktop effects enabled, Rosegarden's title screen appears and after that its windows doesn't appear. I found out that the problem is enabling desktop effects because when they are disabled Rosegarden starts completely in few seconds. I even made a test and enabled effects, launched Rosegarden, wich of course dind't appear, after that disabled effects and Rosegarden's window imediately appeared. I use this software every day and it was the main reason why I migrated to Ubuntu. How can I use Rosegarden and visual effects as well?
PS: My PC has Pentium dual core with 2 x 1,88, 3GB RAM and Nvidia Geforce 8400 GS. My system is Ubuntu Studio 10.10 with Rosegarden 10.10 installed from [URL]
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Jun 4, 2010
Well the Screenie explains most of it.I had trouble update my drivers but i finally did but now I cant use my compiz effects like I did Before I enabled the drivers.
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Jul 18, 2009
I just installed Fedora 11, and am trying to install my video card drivers. I have an Nvidia geforce gtx 260m. So far I have installed both the kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia packages, and I still cannot enable desktop effects. After i installed the akmod package, I sometimes see the nvidia logo for a split second when I log out, but my drivers are still not correctly installed.
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Dec 27, 2009
I just added a new NVidia graphics card (PCI) that's 512 RAM, DDR2, the GeForce 8400 GS. OpenSUSE boots fine and shows the desktop but it tells me I cannot enable desktop effects, which should be no problem with this computer and card.
Computer Processor/RAM:
AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3100+
Speed: 1,808.49 MHz
RAM: 1.4GB
Swap: 2GB
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Mar 17, 2011
Ever since I let the update manager install the 260.19.06 Nvidia driver I have had page tares about 1/4 of the way down the screen when vsync is enabled, if i disable vsync I get tares all over the screen, with vsync on only 1/4 of the way down the screen. Same in Video playback, flash, games, window draging, always the same location. Its not a big issue as I'm not doing multimedia or games under Linux. I'm more wondering if this is just effecting me or if it's a known issue.
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Aug 26, 2010
im using the ubuntu distro and when i goto the visual effects tab and click on normal or extra, it says "desktop effects could not be enabled" also, i have Two hdd's, a 100GB that has windows 7 and ubuntu. and a 250GB that has Windows XP. GRUB didnt notice windows xp though, so its not a boot option.
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