adding the xserver-xgl (and its deps) package and restarting X solved the problem for me. perhaps these should be dependencies if we are going to enable basis desktop effects by default? or is this solution masking some other symptom?
Tail of log:
Setting up libglitz1 (0.5.6-1) ...
Setting up libglitz-glx1 (0.5.6-1) ...
Setting up xserver-xgl (1:1.1.99.1~git20080115-0ubuntu1) ...
adding the xserver-xgl (and its deps) package and restarting X solved the problem for me. perhaps these should be dependencies if we are going to enable basis desktop effects by default? or is this solution masking some other symptom?
Tail of log: 99.1~git2008011 5-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libglitz1 (0.5.6-1) ...
Setting up libglitz-glx1 (0.5.6-1) ...
Setting up xserver-xgl (1:1.1.
Happiness ensues.