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

[Rocket2DMn]

You are right and now I know the transition background and it work very well on my laptop with no lag.

groovy!

[lasombra]

Well my card is not on the blacklist, but compiz was not working:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 02)


Now after SKIP_CHECKES=yes added, I can use the desktop effects again.

[drkjstr]

Had to do a clean instally of Hardy (for other reasons) and did the setup form the first post, and it worked like a charm. Thanks!

[edu77pose]

Thanks for the tip, straight forward & it worked

I tried it on my gf's notebook toshiba tecra A1 and it brought compiz-fusion and awn back to life.

Much appreciated.

[neyuru]

Thanks for the workaround. I entered the command compiz --replace and got this:

yorcho@yorcho-laptop:~$ gksudo gedit /usr/bin/compiz
yorcho@yorcho-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package compizconfig-settings-manager
yorcho@yorcho-laptop:~$ compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Found laptop using ati driver.
SKIP_CHECKS is yes, so continuing despite problems.
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1024x768) to maximum 3D texture size (1024): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
GConf backend: There is an unsupported value at path /apps/compiz/plugins/scale/allscreens/options/initiate_edge. Settings from this path won't be read. Try to remove that value so that operation can continue properly.

What does this mean? How can I quit the terminal?

[neyuru]

P.S. The visual effects did work correctly for me. I have a Radeon Mobility 7500 C. I had to do this in Hardy but in Gutsy there was no necessity for this.

[neyuru]

P.S. The visual effects did work correctly for me. I have a Radeon Mobility 7500 C. I had to do this in Hardy but in Gutsy there was no necessity for this.

Never mind the previous two messages. How do I enable the cube?

thanks

[Rocket2DMn]

Never mind the previous two messages. How do I enable the cube?

thanks

You need to install compizconfig-settings-manager

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

Then go to System->Preferences->Advanced Desktop Effects Settings and check the box for Desktop Cube and allow it to disabled Desktop Wall.

[knight666]

Hi,

Thanks for the advice in this thread, it really helped me out.
But I still have an annoying problem: I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 with all the latest updates on a Compaq Evo N610c (1.8 Ghz Mobile Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 32 MB), and with some haxxing (manually installing xserver-xgl, changing xorg.conf, etc) I got Compiz working.
But, not entirely.
Scrolling is very slow in windows and even though glxgears says I have an fps of 35-45 (under Compiz) and 75-80 (under Metacity), the window looks extremely choppy.

When I open a menu under Compiz, there is a white bar next to the end of the alpha blend shadow.

Finally, this is the output of compiz:

Checking for Xgl: present.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checkign for Xgl: present.
GConf backend: There is an unsupported value at path /apps/compiz/plugins/scale/allscreens/options/initiate_edge. Settings from this path won't be read. Try to remove the value so that operation can continue properly.

The option is set to its default value, "[]".

Help? <

[hodenkat]

Dude! YOU RULE!

On first boot after making changes I was able to enable effects and they work smoothly just like they were on 7.10! AWSOME!

Thank you!

Running 8.04 on an IBM T-40 laptop : ATI Radeon Mobility 7500