Comment 9 for bug 197264

To me, there are (still) multiple issues here.

1) As a user trying out ubuntu, desktop effects simply fail.

The problem with this is that there is no indication of why it failed. I know that it's probably because it's running the open source drivers. That's why I tried to find out what was running via jockey/displayconfig (which were both broken). I believe that a normal user probably wouldn't make that connection in the first place.

I think the desktop effects UI should give better feedback here if drivers are the issue, perhaps to the point of launching jockey to use alternate drivers. Perhaps that's out of scope and an improvement, not a bug.

I'm not sure if jockey is supposed to ask you if you want to use restricted drivers on startup of the live CD or not. That is also something that would also make using desktop effects a bit easier.

2) Jockey isn't working - it's showing a blank list.