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VMWare Fusion - Can't enable advanced visual effects in Ubuntu 7.1 on MacBook
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I have a 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook with VMWare Fusion installed. I installed Ubuntu 7.10 and the VMWare Tools. It is working great except that I can't enable advanced visual effects (System -> Preferences -> Appearance). When I try to enable either Normal, Extra, or Custom effects I get the error message "Desktop effects could not be enabled" and it reverts back to None.
I installed the compizconfig-settings-manager using the Synaptic Package Manager.
Do I need to install drivers specific to the MacBook video card?
Has anyone experienced this in the past or have any suggestions as to why this is occurring?
Thanks,
Tim
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Never got it to work on ubuntu or fedora in a VMWare, Fusion or a HD install. Not saying that it can't be done... someone more knowledgeable may have a better perspective.
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Mac Elite
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The VMware video adapter is not 3D-accelerated, and thus you will not be able to use the fancy (though useless IMO) effects in Compiz/Beryl/whatever-the-hell-it's-called-this-year.
There is DirectX 8-level 3D acceleration if you have XP SP2 installed in a VM, but otherwise there is nothing.
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What Tomchu said is exactly right.
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I've run into the same "problem" but VMware Fusion does have "experimental support for DirectX 9.0 accelerated 3-D graphics (without "shaders")." Source: VMware Fusion Release Notes
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cgc: right, but of course Ubuntu doesn't support DirectX. No OS but Windows does.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Neither VMWare nor Parallels has what anyone would call "full-service" graphics. They both use their own, virtualized video system, ignoring the actual hardware as much as possible, so no matter what your computer has, you get the virtual adapter. A pain, indeed. However, I'd like to point out that the overhead involved in running either Fusion or Parallels would make a hard-core gamer cringe-for gaming, it's probably bes to just use Boot Camp so you can boot directly into Windows and use the whole computer natively.
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Glenn -----
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Originally Posted by besson3c 
cgc: right, but of course Ubuntu doesn't support DirectX. No OS but Windows does.
Of course, I was replying to TomChu's previous post...
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Unlike Fusion, Parallels supports OpenGL acceleration. I suggest you download the trial version and give it a go.
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Originally Posted by The Godfather
Unlike Fusion, Parallels supports OpenGL acceleration. I suggest you download the trial version and give it a go.
Not under Linux.
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