Desktop Effects failing/missing Kopete server

[Aykay87]

I've cleanly installed 9.10 and have been toying around with making it pretty. I've been able to make changes in the appearances section, but when I try applying Desktop effects (ie disabling window thumbnails on plasma panels) I get a notification saying that the following effects "__, ___, ___etc" could not be activated. Although, I can change the number of desktops I have. Desktop Effects seems to be the problem.

Also, in Kopete I don't have an option to select a facebook chat account at all. Is there something I need to do to update Kopete?

[Snowhog]

Re: Desktop Effects failing/missing Kopete server

Desktop Effects (compositing) is a function of the abilities of your GPU (graphics card/chip). Do you know what manufacture/model of GPU/chip you have? If not, open a console and type:

lspci | grep Graphics

[Aykay87]

Re: Desktop Effects failing/missing Kopete server

It's a Toshiba Satellite 2345-S255. The command you gave me didn't have any effect, but here's lspci:

jeremy@jak:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host-to-AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go] (rev a3)
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01)
02:04.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01)

It's a few years old, but the graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce4 420.

[Snowhog]

Re: Desktop Effects failing/missing Kopete server

Yeah, Graphics doesn't appear in the lspci listing, so my command would have returned nothing. However, this is your graphics controller:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go] (rev a3)

This will be of assistance in seeing if your issue can be resolved satisfactorily.