Compiz

paradisiac · 20 May 2011 at 12:44

ok, so i installed mint 10 debian, had a few issues with the updates but sorted that. went to enable the compiz 3d desktop stuff, but no 3d desktop option in hardware. there is a compiz config bit though, so turned on all the bits i had on in mandriva and nothing

so i searched the software manager and installed compiz, now there are loads more settings in compiz config, but still, none of them work

any ideas?

paradisiac · 20 May 2011 at 13:04

its an intel card and it all worked fine with mandriva

paradisiac · 20 May 2011 at 14:23

its an intel card, i have no idea what driver it is using

how do i find out?

paradisiac · 20 May 2011 at 14:53

Huw said:
It might not be supported then; I'm pretty sure Compiz requires hardware 3D acceleration. Try searching for your card + compiz on Google. I'd post more but I'm off to do the school run now!

it worked on mandriva though :confused:

paradisiac · 20 May 2011 at 15:30

ok all sorted, needed a script to enable it on startup.

paradisiac · 20 May 2011 at 15:46

Huw said:
Oh splendid, where did you find that?

a bit of googling took me to here and that sorted it for me

paradisiac · 20 May 2011 at 17:02

no worries, im slowly working my way through things bit by bit. a few things have been harder than i would have liked, but nothing has beat me yet.
am very suprised how quickly and easily you can find a solution via google compaired to windows based problems.

paradisiac · 20 May 2011 at 17:29

yeh, but then that was the only option (other than creating a new user) when mandriva went wrong on me. thats why i made the change to mint.