My guess. They introduced some kind of bug in jockey, which is now the program which cares for detecting if a closed video driver is available and needed/installable. This program does more than it looks; it not only cares for installing the packages, but actually configures the whole system so that they are used. Since this the fact that xorg.conf looks much barer and, well, useless, nowadays. Since jockey is obviously, bugged, however, this not only means that we can't enable simply our "beloved" restricted drivers, it also means that even if we install them, the system is not configured so to use them! My solution was simply to open my xorg.conf file, and add the old
Driver "nvidia" line inside the video device section. Guess what, it worked, now I am back to compiz (note: this is kinda of a hack - which I hope is only temporary. Would be...embarassing to launch Hardy in this situation ;-) ). As for compiz behaving strangely today, that's another story. They are obviously upgrading the packages in the repo, but they are doing so at a strange pace...only some compiz packages are currently upgraded...so that now I have compiz-core but can't have compiz-gnome. Oh well, at least I can have compiz enabled. Guess we'll see it fixed in some hours... Kudos Jeldert Pol ha scritto: > Fresh install of Hardy: > > 1. Try changing Visual Effects from None to Normal > 2. It waits, and a crash report is detected. > 3. Get message "Desktop effects could not be enabled". > 4. Visual Effects is back to None. > > I haven't installed any graphics drivers. Maybe it cannot be enabled > because of that, but it shouldn't crash. > -- jockey-gtk crashed with AttributeError in enables_composite() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215005 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
