[ubuntu-uk] Visual Effects are greyed out

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

On 22/07/10 15:46, Dave Morley wrote:
> 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.
>   
That just comes up with a window that says "No proprietary drivers on
this system".
BTW, I'm not RUNNING from a flash drive, I installed to my HDD FROM a
flash drive...