If the issue happens before X is even loaded, then that means it's not an X bug.
It sounds like plymouth (or perhaps grub or something else in the plumbing layer) put the GPU into a bad state, and so when eventually X came up, it couldn't fire up 3D on it, thus no effects. You might try booting earlier alphas of natty to see if you can bracket when it started. ** Package changed: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) => plymouth (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/713877 Title: No desktop effects and no "True Color" color depth -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
