Ubuntu
compiz package

  1. Bug #99847
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 99847

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toga (toga-inf) wrote : Re: Drawing error when maximizing a window with "Desktop Effects"

I downloaded the Hardy Heron Live CD, burned and tried it, but it worked only in "Safe graphics mode". In normal mode X displayed (almost) nothing on my LCD and some strange flashing textmode on my CRT with vertical lines in all character shape.
"(almost) nothing" means solid black screen, or after other X starts solid color (red or purple or something else) screen with some pixel strings in the top line.
In "Safe graphics mode" i started System/Preferences/Appearance, and tried to enable Visual Effects but in both modes (Normal and Extra) got the error message "Desktop effects could not be enabled", which seems to be normal behavior in safe mode.
I know that it is offtopic, but the Hardy Heron Live CD didn't detect my sound card (AD198x integrated sound chip on ASUS P5B Deluxe motherboard).
I think, i will wait for the next UBUNTU version, and hope that it will support my hardware (that P5B Deluxe with NVidia GeForce 7600GS).
In my last report i forgot to mention, that the reason of using batch files to start Compiz was losing the desktop effects menu item after updating Compiz and installing CompizConfig.