[CoLoCo] Video Drivers Clarification

Ryan Maki ryan.maki at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 23:25:09 BST 2007


Yep, the radeon driver will disable the Composite extension in  
xorg.conf. You'll have to do some config hacking to get XGL working,  
and I never had a good experience with compiz and XGL. If you like eye  
candy and it's running fine, you should just leave the FOSS driver,  
IMHO.

~Ryan

On Oct 26, 2007, at 3:11 PM, "Dave Vanderploeg" <dave.vanderploeg at gmail.com 
 > wrote:

> So I just want to make sure my understanding is correct. I just did  
> a fresh install of Gutsy, and Compiz is working. If I install the  
> ATI drivers trough the "Restricted Driver Manager" I'll lose Compiz,  
> right?
>
> Dave.
>
> (FYI, if it matters my video card is a 9600xt)
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