Cannot activate Desktop effects
When I right click the desktop; Change Desktop Background - Visual Effects and click Normal I get a popup; Desktop Effects Could Not Be Enabled... i had ububtu b4, and it did ran quite good.
what can i do to solve this and stick with trisquel forever? ;)
my graphic agp is a GeForce 6600.
kudos
Install the package named "libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental" (in Slaine's and Dagda's repository). Notice however the presence of the word "experimental" in this name: you may go through stability issues.
wel, its kinda weird, since in ubuntu, i usually get notification to install nvidia drivers at first boot... isnt there any other way?
and how do i add repos?
libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental is Free software. It is in Slaine's and Dagda's repositories (no repository to add). You can, for instance, install it very easily from Synaptic (in the System/Administration menu).
nVidia's driver is proprietary software. Neither Trisquel nor people on this forum would help you install it.
What Ubuntu notifies is for available non-free drivers. Trisquel, unlike
Ubuntu, doesn't offer non-free software. Also, we don't help with
installing non-free software, because the idea of Trisquel and the
community around it is to use only free software.
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proprietary software isn't objected by the Ubuntu community, so they simply include it in their distribution, or help the users to easily install it. But there are lots of problems that come with it, even though sometimes it allows to extend functionality of certain hardware. Trisquel is made by removing all the proprietary software from Ubuntu, so if you want to use Trisquel, you should try to use free software only, like intended by the developers. This approach has many advantages, ethical and technical.
Bottom line, try to use the experimental drivers for your GeForce. If it doesn't work as expected, aim for buying a card that will run better with free software drivers and use Ubuntu in the meantime.
thank you all for your insight. and for all the tips as well. like ive said, im kinda neeb in this, but my hardwares are always keen to have problems with linux. ive chosen trisquel for its simlpicity, most gr8 looks and for its idea: freeware. i did not know however, that official drivers colided with this, hence my preplexity.
i will do as you told and give fully detailed feedback, if this pleases the community.
to be stated however, that it also must be a goal for devs, on making trisquel compatible for older machines (that im sure it is).
most thanks and kudos.
PS: ill be feeding back in a while conting on your support as well ;)
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The applet that notifies you of hardware drivers, you see in Ubuntu, is
called Jockey, and is not in Trisquel, since it recommends non-free
software. To add a repository, you can use
"system->administration->software sources" or in the terminal do:
sudo add-apt-repository",
followed by the name of the repo to add. To use your added repo, first
do "sudo apt-get update",
to refresh the database.
HTH,
Dave Hunt
On 22/09/11 04:59, name at domain wrote:
> wel, its kinda weird, since in ubuntu, i usually get notification to
> install nvidia drivers at first boot... isnt there any other way?
> and how do i add repos?
well just installed it. it looks s**y. i cant even work tere... :\ should i remove other intall drivers or also install libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental-db ??
kudos
libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental-dbg is for debugging. It will not change the result but probably is essential to a good bug report. So, if you want to help the developers...
let me know how to do dat and i will endeed.
Well, the developers of Nouveau (the driver you use) do not accept bug reports from people using packages made by distributions : http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs
As a consequence, you either need to report the bug to Ubuntu (Trisquel takes this package from Ubuntu and does not modify it) or try to install the latest version of the driver from Git ( http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Source ) and report bugs to the developers.
If all you need is simple desktop effects (transparency, drop shadows etc.) then you don't need hardware acceleration. You can turn on Metacity compositing and it will work on pretty much any hardware.
Run gconf-editor, goto /apps/metacity/general and turn on "compositing manager".
If all you need is simple desktop effects (transparency, drop shadows etc.)
then you don't need hardware acceleration. You can turn on Metacity
compositing and it will work on pretty much any hardware.
Run gconf-editor, goto /apps/metacity/general and turn on "compositing
manager".