mainesysadmin.com » ati http://mainesysadmin.com SysAdmin in Maine Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Ubuntu x64 7.10 gutsy and ATI x300 w/ compiz http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/02/09/ubuntu-x64-710-gutsy-and-ati-x300-w-compiz/ http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/02/09/ubuntu-x64-710-gutsy-and-ati-x300-w-compiz/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:25:47 +0000 Tom http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/02/09/ubuntu-x64-710-gutsy-and-ati-x300-w-compiz/ Finally I found a few instructions which made this configuration easy and smooth.

http://www.chr05210084.com/content/install-compiz-fusion-ubuntu-gutsy-using-ati-video-card

1. Enable fgrlx driver.
Install linux-restricted-modules and restricted-manager provied in the restricted repositories:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-generic restricted-manager

Open the restricted drivers manager in “System -> Administration -> Restricted Drivers Manager” and select “ATI accelerated graphics driver”.
2. Install xserver-xgl package

sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl

3. Install compiz

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz compiz-core compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-gnome compiz-plugins libcompizconfig-backend-gconf libcompizconfig0

4. Reboot
5. Log in. 3D effects should be enabled!

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