help for a newbiew

[Husse]

As for bluetooth you have asked that question elsewhere
I think the latest version of the Intel video driver supports your card.
Open Synaptic and search for
xserver-xorg-video-intel
Install if not installed.
You might need "915resolution" too but I don't think so

[MagnusB]

Could you copy and paste the output of:

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lspci | grep VGA

I think I have the same graphics card, or a similar one.
You could also check out your xorg.conf file to see what driver you are using:

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gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

.
Scroll down to

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8400M GS]"
Driver "nvidia"
Busid "PCI:5:0:0"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

This is an extract from mine, yours should say "intel" instead of "nvidia". If it say "vesa" you are probably using wrong driver.

[Husse]

Let me guess - you have 3D but not all the eye candy you've heard about.
Go to Control Center > Appearance > Visual effects
You may have to set it to Normal, I'm not sure your video is powerful enough for Extra (and I actually don't know what happens if you tick that alternative without proper support for it)

[Husse]

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf
change
Driver "i810"
to
Driver "intel"
to get visual effects
Unfortunately there are two steps to get a video driver to work
Install and change xorg.conf This conf file should be changed but that is not always the case
You could also do
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

[MagnusB]

In order to edit the xorg.conf file you need root priveleges, I didn't want you to edit anything earlier as I was not sure whether or not you needed to, but just to look at the file..
You could try to install the intel driver:

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sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-intel

If that is already installed, then you just need to change the video driver in xorg.conf:

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sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then change "i810" to "intel". Hopefully this will help to solve the problem, but I did some research and saw that some got 3D working and some didn't, so this might be one of those hardware setup troubles (different hardware setup gives different result, even if they have trouble with the same piece of hardware).

[Husse]

A 965 should be able to handle Compiz
We better start from the beginning again
Run this in a terminal
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
There are a series of questions asked, read carefully before you answer. In most cases default is the right option

[MagnusB]

Did it fix it? The message there is just that it has backuped the original xorg.conf file and called the backup xorg.conf4454etc. Just in case the new conf does not work. Always, after editing the xorg.conf you need to restart X in order for the change to take effect. You could do that by CTRL + ALT + Backspace, but I prefer a complete reboot, instead of just restarting X.

[Husse]

This is an old topic that someone has posted something in and so I see it again - bear in mind that I write in the order of 120+ posts a week so a post is soon forgotten
I have discovered after my initial posts that Intel 965 is on the Compiz black list.