[CoLoCo] Video Drivers Clarification

[Dave Vanderploeg]

Well, the FOSS driver runs compiz, but not very well. Is there anyone here
who's good at setting up ATI cards for Compiz, or does it make sense to just
buy an Nvidia card?

Dave.

On 10/26/07, Ryan Maki <ryan.maki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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