Compiz System Requirements

[786souljah]

That's great! I just went to your blog explaining the script and all and it might work to tell me what i need. After I install ubuntu i'll be sure to get the script installed and see what it tells me.

[hendoc]

Google for a thing called "Compiz-check". Make it executable and run it and it will give you a checklist of 5 or 6 parameters and tell you if they are up to par for running Compiz Fusion.

[786souljah]

Alright well i spend the afternoon getting the dual-boot up and running and here I am on ubuntu. All the upgrades completed (205 of them) and I decided to run that script and see how it'd fair out; heres the results:

Gathering information about your system...

Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04
Desktop environment: GNOME
Graphics chip: S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05)
Driver in use: savage
Rendering method: AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [ OK ]
Checking for non power of two support... [FAIL]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ]
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [WARN]

Something potential problematic has been detected with your setup:
Warning: Detected driver is not on the whitelist.

Would you like to know more? (Y/n) y

Your driver is not widely known to work with Compiz and thus may be
blacklisted on certain distributions.

You can skip this blacklist -- but keep in mind that you did so.
Do not complain if you encounter any problems with Compiz afterwards.

Do you want to skip blacklist checks by Compiz? (y/N) y

I guess this basically shows I won't be able to run compiz well or at all even seeing as I fail in one part and am warned in another?

[Forlong]

Yes, I'm afraid that's the case.

[786souljah]

LOL okay well thanks for the help, I'm glad at least now I know about that script to try out, which by the way is great and simple. Thanks again!