HowTo: Compiz Fusion in Hardy on cards with "ati"/"radeon" open source drivers

notanerd, it would likely help if you have a default xorg.conf file. See here - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=690760
Are you using restricted drivers? If so, how did you install them?

I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg but their was no prompt in it to select a video driver. Regardless my xorg.conf has been changed but I am still having the same problem. I was using catalyst 9.3 for a while but the video playback sucked so i purged fglrx and installed the open source driver with apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati

Are you using Hardy, or some other release of Ubuntu? Can you please post the output of:

Code:

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lspci | grep VGA
lsmod | grep fglrx
lsmod | grep radeon
glxinfo | grep direct

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i'm using Intrepid

evan@durruti:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
evan@durruti:~$ lsmod | grep fglrx
evan@durruti:~$ lsmod | grep radeon
radeon 147616 2
drm 86056 3 radeon
evan@durruti:~$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
evan@durruti:~$

In the past couple of years, I have seen a number of people having problems specifically with their Radeon 9600 cards - some people's work, others' simply don't. I'm afraid I don't have a solution for you, so I won't drag this out here. I suggest that you start a new thread specifically for your problem as this one is meant for Hardy and enabling compiz to run, not troubleshooting it. Sorry, and good luck.

No worries, thanks for your effort anyway. I think it is a lost cause, and I don't care that much really. I can live without fancy effects.