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All of a sudden, the graphics aren't working on my Ubuntu 13.04 64bit. I ran sudo apt-get upgrade yesterday, and now the launcher and dash transparency don't work. What's odd is that the notifications transparency-blur-thingy does work. Auto-hiding the launcher also gives me weird results. I have some screenshots:

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The launcher is not transparent. enter image description here Neither is dash. enter image description here
And that is what the desktop looks like with the launcher on auto-hide.

My hardware is a Gigabyte h61n motherboard with an intel i3 CPU. What's wierd is that System Settings -> Details can't make up it's mind what graphics I have.

the output of lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 vga:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0102] (rev 09) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:d000] 00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:1c3a] (rev 04) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:1c3a]
MadTux
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  • what is the output for "lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 vga"? – Tanel Mae Jun 09 '13 at 08:36
  • @TanelMae 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0102] (rev 09) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:d000] 00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:1c3a] (rev 04) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:1c3a] – MadTux Jun 09 '13 at 08:41
  • Where the lines "Kernel driver in use:" and "Kernel modules:" missing or you didn't copy them? Also edit your question by adding more information about your hardware. If it is a laptop, then usually model name is enough. Mos Have you tried "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"? (update with dependencies) Also run "sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel" to make sure that for some reason driver has not been removed. – Tanel Mae Jun 09 '13 at 09:29
  • @TanelMae I think I copied everything, but here it is again: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0102] (rev 09) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:d000] Kernel driver in use: i915 00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:1c3a] (rev 04) – MadTux Jun 09 '13 at 09:39
  • Test whether you have the driver installed as instructed in my previous comment. Let's hope it is just a driver issue. – Tanel Mae Jun 09 '13 at 09:45
  • I did all that, logged out and in again, and IT WORKS!!! Thanks ;-) Could you put all that in an answer so I can officially accept your solution? – MadTux Jun 09 '13 at 09:46

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Sometimes things get broken or lost during updates.

Try these two commands:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

This reruns updates command with some extra features. Read about the difference between apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade here.

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel

This reinstalls the driver if it has been removed for some reason.

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Tanel Mae
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How is transparency behaving with

compiz-fusion

and

cairo-dock ?

or else wm ?

dschinn1001
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  • what graphics card you have exactly ? concerning nvidia there is actually a suiting package for CUDA optimus. – dschinn1001 Jun 09 '13 at 10:20
  • I have an intel h61 chip. Everything works, except the launcher and the dash. But, @TanelMae solved it. – MadTux Jun 09 '13 at 17:09
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Yeah, I have noticed that the graphics drivers in the Ubuntu versions since 12.04 have been a bit troublesome. Generally when I see issues like this I just recommend reinstalling the graphics driver. I am not sure if you are using and nvidia or ati card, but try reinstalling the driver. This will force a recompilation of the drivers and will hopefully solve the issue. You can do this through instructions like 

sudo apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-current

You could do the equivalent thing for the ATI driver as well.

krishnab
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