Progressive Black Screen with Compiz Fusion Effects

[TalkUbuntu]

So today, I installed Compiz Fusion on my Ubuntu 4.10. So I went to edit the effects, I'm not exactly sure what I edited, but right afterward, when I moved my mouse, what I moved it over turned black, and soon I had a pretty much black screen with a faint outline of the bars, but not enough to divide between the menus. So, I restarted my computer, and tried again, and sure enough, it was there when I logged in. I tried recovery, but that didn't help at all. I am new to Linux in general, especially since I usually use Windows Vista and got Linux yesterday. I would be glad to supply more details if needed. If there is a way to edit effects outside of a user, that would be great. Also, if you could tell me which effects to enable on Compiz Fusion, so that next time I am not stuck in a predicament.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

I installed Compiz Fusion on my Ubuntu 4.10.

Isn't it 8.10?

Which Graphics Card do you have?
Press Alt+Ctrl+F2. It will switch to tty2, command line interface. Log in there and execute this

sudo lspci | grep -i vga
grep  -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

[TalkUbuntu]

Isn't it 8.10?

Yes, typo on my part.

Which Graphics Card do you have?
Press Alt+Ctrl+F2. It will switch to tty2, command line interface. Log in there and execute this

sudo lspci | grep -i vga
grep  -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

The results, as exact as I can get them:
[00:02.0 VGA Compatible controller: Intel Corporation 829456G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
grep: /etc/x11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory.]
Also, I don't have a clue if the one I downloaded is recent. I went to: YouTube - How to install or enable compiz fusion 3d cube and effects.
Now that I look at it, it was a pretty crappy tutorial. So, I hope you can come up with any further developments.

[devils casper]

grep: /etc/x11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory.]

Its Capital X in X11.

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[TalkUbuntu]

I did it with the x capitalized. The result return message was nothing.

[devils casper]

Post the output of this

cat /etc/lsb-release

[TalkUbuntu]

DIS | RIB_ID=Ubuntu
DIS | RIB_RELEASE=8.10
DIS | RIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DIS | RIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"

[TalkUbuntu]

I am not meaning to double-post, but I would like a little help. I know that probably most of the people here are busy helping others, but I don't want to wait 2 weeks or something insane. Someone may be working on it or not, but I am posting
1. To move it back to the front (As soon as a thread moves back one page, it is noted dramatically less.)
2. To hopefully get help sooner.

*peace*

[alpha-X-geek]

You can revert CF to a more basic level by navigating to System > Preferences > Appearance > Visual Effects, or temporarily disable effects altogether by executing the command ''metacity --replace'' in the terminal.

[zacho]

Ditto on this problem. I was fooling around with compiz settings and clicked the "enable blur" checkbox, and my desktop environment has been screwed ever since.

On subsequent boots my entire screen goes black with a few garbled video effects well before I can do anything like, say, enter the compiz settings pane again.

I have apt-get purge'd compiz, yet the problem persists. Perhaps I need also to purge the various related compiz packages (compiz-gnome, compiz-core, etc)?

I'd be really interested to know if anyone has had any insight on this problem.

Oh yeah, my box is a dell mini-9.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7
RELEASE_NOTES_URL=hxxp://linuxmint...
DISTRIB_CODENAME=Gloria
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 7 Gloria - Main Edition"

$ grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

$ sudo lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Contrller (rev 03)

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