about desktop effects

Hello ,

after install desktop effects is enable

how can i know my laptop is work fine with this effects ?

and how i can know my laptop support desktop effects ?

and is there any risk on my vga ?

dell 6400
cpu 1.6 GHZ
vga 256 MB
hdd 160 GB
ram 2GB

You are running KDE or Gnome?

Desktop effects from KWin or Compiz?

KWin disables effects your graphic card does not support. I think Compiz
handels this the same way.

What type of graphic card (model)?

hi there
im using compiz

 lspci -v -s 00:02.0 

give me this output


00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
	Memory at eff00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
	I/O ports at eff8 [size=8]
	Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256]
	Memory at efec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

and this command


lspci -v  -s $(lspci | grep -i vga | cut -d " " -f 1) | grep prefetchable | grep -v non | cut -d " " -f 6

give me

[size=256]

my card type

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 

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