[ubuntu-uk] Visual Effects are greyed out

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 15:36 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 22/07/10 15:35, Dave Morley wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 15:32 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> >   
> >> I installed 10.04 Remix on my Laptop from a flash drive (because it's
> >> MUCH faster than using the CD) but if I right-click on the desktop,
> >> choose "Change Desktop background" and click on the Visual Effects tab,
> >> it's set to None and all the options are greyed out.
> >> I know that the graphics card is good because it runs Aero on (cough
> >> cough!) Windows 7....
> >> How do I enable this?
> >>
> >>     
> > It possible needs 3d gfx drivers for the 3d stuff to work.  Do you know
> > what card is in the machine?
> >   
> 
> I don't. What command in the terminal should I issue?
> 
Fire up hardware drivers from System->Administration.  Although I'm not
sure how reliable it will be running it from USB.
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