PS: The OP mentioned Compitz. I don't think Compitz has anything to do with it; for what it's worth, I have it disabled and I'm having the same problem. I don't even think OpenGL is necessarily at fault -- OpenGL works on my system, and I can use demanding OpenGL applications such as Chromium B.S.U. I am using the mga graphics driver (Matrox Millennium G450 DualHead graphics card), though I don't think the graphics drivers are to blame either, it looks to me as if maybe GOOM is not installed (correctly). I even manually installed the xmms-goom package in Synaptic, but that didn't help either (I think Rhythmbox uses GStreamer, but there isn't any other GOOM package in Synaptic).
UPDATE -- POSSIBLE FIX: I just installed the gstreamer0.10-gl package, and this immediately fixed this problem. It appears that the Rhythmbox should depend on gstreamer0.10-gl, but it currently does not do so. Could this be changed? -- Rhythmbox not display graphics if click on visualization and select a GOOM (Intermitent bug) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156060 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for rhythmbox in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs