compiz effects not working on Dell laptop with Nvidia

Hello, I have a Dell Latitude 820 with a Nvidia video driver. All windows effects from Compiz are not working. I use Zorin 5.2 OS installed on USB drive. On others computers all effects are working. I installed the last Nvidia driver but no diference. Now I uninstalled the Nvidia driver and the actual driver can't recognize the laptop monitor and it use with a lowest resolution. Is there any chance to see the compiz effects with the nvidia video?
Thanks.

Have you actually installed zorin in the USB stick or you have just prepared a live USB with Zorin? If you have just prepared a live usb, have you also created persistent space or not?

Also, can you please provide following feedback from terminal?

Code:

lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 vga

I prepared a live usb with persistent space. I run it on others laptops and all efects are working (but no Nvidia grafic card) only on my is not work.

Code:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G72M [GeForce Go 7400] [10de:01d8] (rev a1)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01cc]
   Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb
03:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge [1217:7135] (rev 21)


Mi Nvidia is not GeForce Go 7400 like was detected. I have a Quadro NVS 110 with 512 mb dedicated RAM.

remav wrote:Mi Nvidia is not GeForce Go 7400 like was detected. I have a Quadro NVS 110 with 512 mb dedicated RAM.

??? And the terminal showed false result? Did you have the live usb plugged in the Dell laptop that you are having the problem, when you gave the command

Code:

lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 vga

?

Could I also see the result of the command

Code:

sudo lshw -c video

Of course that I have the USB plug-ed into the Dell port. I take the data about my video card from Dell page with my product service code. There for Windows platform at video driver it's wrote that is Quadro 110M or 120M. Now I don't know who is telling the truth, the linux interogation or the Dell site.
Below can see the report.

Code:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G72M [GeForce Go 7400] [10de:01d8] (rev a1)
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01cc]
   Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb
03:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge [1217:7135] (rev 21)
live@live:~$ sudo lshw -c video
  *-display UNCLAIMED     
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G72M [GeForce Go 7400]
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:ed000000-edffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:ee000000-eeffffff memory:ef000000-ef01ffff
live@live:~$ ^C
live@live:~$


I don't believe that the terminal is lying...

As I see you are using the open drivers of Nvidia. Maybe you need to activate the proprietary drivers to get the 3d effects.

In terminal write

Code:

jockey-gtk

A window will open. Do you see any drivers proposed to be activated?

Also, as Wm would say, is your system fully updated...?

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Hi,

for the latest drivers ( version 304.37 as of 21.Aug.2012) please copy and paste the following commands one after the other in a terminal:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Then restart your PC.

Follow MV's advice about updating, see also:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2247

Regards Wolfman

madvinegar wrote:Also, as Wm would say, is your system fully updated...?

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I done this, my system is updated.
In the window what is appeared I have an "Experimantal 3D Nvidia suport" driver but is no difference if I activate or not this driver.
I had installed the latest driver from Nvidia, the new version is 304.51 from 5 september, but no effect. Worst, if I keep this driver and I run this Zorin on other PC without Nvidia card the effects are gone too. I uninstalled the Nvidia driver and now it's working on other PC, but mine is not. I have the options activated from Compiz settings, no errors, but is not working.

Hi,

remove the "Experimantal 3D Nvidia suport" drivers and use the PPA I posted earlier and let us know.

In a terminal one after the other:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Regards Wolfman