The Composite Extension is not available...

[angels mail]

I had the same problem. I fixed this in xorg.conf, with composite enabled.
Now I have a new ATI driver, where the composite has to be disabled, thus -
depends on driver you have ...

just check xorg.conf, it should be written something like this:
Section "Extensions"
    Option        "Composite" "enabled" #or disabled, sometimes just 0
EndSection
if you have a proprietary driver look here -
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=569654

further you may look here (for some settings)
http://forlong.blogage.de/article/2007/8/29/How-to-set-up-Compiz-Fusion

I hope this will help.
Cheers, Angels

2008/1/13, Rick Barry <existentialsailor at yahoo.com>:
>
> When I go to:
> System --> Preferences --> Appearance -->
> Visual Effects and choose "Normal" (default setting
> is none),
> I get the dialog stated in the subject line of this
> post.
>
> Then the Appearance Dialog Box is frozen and I have to
> use "force quit" or a restart to get rid of it.
>
> I'm using an ATI card with restricted drivers if that
> is of any significance.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Linux user level: very new
>
>
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