rainz

IPB does try to detect if Minify will work and disable it if not.
If for whatever reason the detection doesn't work you can disable it in the ACP - if you'd had contacted support from the start they would have recognised the problem straight away ;)

The main problem for Minify not working and IPB not being able to detect it is due to it's reliance on changing the include path - I did contact Minify a little while ago about this and they told me they would be changing that.

Oh yeah, and the version of Minify you ship carks it quite horribly if you add any extra CSS files (check out Forcize skins sometime - they actually require you to upgrade Minify when installing any of their skins!)

Well that would be a bug which should be reported ;) I've never heard of or seen this issue.

If there's an updated version of minify that works with IPB and fixes other issues elsewhere, I'm happy upgrading the version of minify we ship with.

Thanks xenboy for this thread.
Solve my troubles also.

@bfarber
the message that is prompted on the dashboard says that /cache/tmp needs to be writable.
if you then CHMOD777 the tmp folder. everything appears in lo-fi.
the problem is then that you need to disable minify in the CPU Saving & Optimization settings as well.
it is NOT automatically turned off.

lofi = CHMOD777 and setting "on"
normal = CHMOD 777 and setting "off"
normal = CHMOD 755 and setting "on"