I have finally upgraded from ubuntu 9 to 10.4, but was saddened to see my visual effects lost. I have followed much advice from others to reinstall parallels tools, edit /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. Each time I start up and try to enable extra effects in the appearance preferences, I am told "Desktop effects could not be enabled". I found a compiz-check tool and the following is output: Is there something I need to do to have my macbook pro video card speaking with parallels?
As I have already mentioned, I have re-installed parallels tools. I've upgraded it, removed it, added it back. Nothing works.
Lets check if something went wrong during tools installation then. Any failures in /var/log/parallels-tools-install.log? On the other hand I'd also inspect /etc/X11/xorg.conf, Device section. Tools installer should have set Driver to "prlvideo".
Hmm... Everything seems to be correct here. X should use Parallels driver, not vesa. Could you also upload /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/parallels.log to ftp://fe.parallels.com/bf8073f755861d62b46e040d284a9efe/
It appers that you have ATI FireGL drivers installed in your VM. These drivers won't work obviously and conflict with Parallels drivers. First of all try renaming /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules to /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules.bak. This should enable Xorg to load Parallels libglx module. Also check which libGL is used by the system: # ldd `which glxgears` Parallels library should be loaded from /usr/lib/mesa. One more small fix is to remove from xorg.conf Server Layout this line: InputDevice "Generic Mouse" Parallels Mouse is already in there.
ok, i moved extra-modules to a backup file and rebooted. below is the libGL output you requested. I'm not seeing /usr/lib/mesa. I believe the ATI firegl stuff was from when I was on an older mac and experimenting with getting the enhanced effects working then.
serv, by removing the ati drivers and reinstalling parallels tools I was able to enable the enhanced effects. I'm even able to see the window shadows which was not working for me in ubuntu 9.04. I really appreciate your help. This is why Parallels is the best!
