Installing/running Compiz on GeForce2 MX/MX 400

[christiansb]

Hello! I recently managed to install Ubuntu 7.10 on my four years old computer. A friend of mine has Compiz installed on his computer and recommended me to do the same. The problem is that I can't install the package on my computer. I have tried several times to type ccsm, sudo apt-get install ccsm etc. in the terminal but with no luck. I hope any of you have knowledge to help me install Compiz.

Thanks!:)

[adamk]

ccsm isn't actually compiz, it's just a configuration utility. You can install it with 'sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager'. To start compiz, you'd run 'compiz --replace ccp &' in a terminal. If it doesn't start up, you should post the output of that command here.

Adam

[christiansb]

Thank you! It worked!

But (there is always a but) when I have activated the settings I want and typed "compiz --replace ccp &" in the terminal it wont work...as usually. Here is the message from the terminal after typing "compiz --replace ccp &" :

christian@christians-desktop:~$ compiz --replace ccp &
[1] 5594
christian@christians-desktop:~$ Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 10de:0110 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1280x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Less than 65536kb of memory and nVidiaaborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity

christian@christians-desktop:~$




Any suggestions?

[adamk]

Ubuntu is refusing to let compiz start on your video card because it has so little memory on it. You can try: 'mkdir ~/.config/compiz/; echo SKIP_CHECKS=yes >> ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager'

And then you can run compiz with 'compiz --replace ccp &'

That will tell Ubuntu to start up compiz anyway. However, depending on the specific card you have, compiz may not perform very well. Do you know what model video card you have?

Adam

[christiansb]

It works but not good enough, I had to turn off cubes and bigger things which my graphic card couldn't handle. But small effects on the windows etc. works as it should work!

According this computer I do have GeForce2 MX/MX 400 :p

Do you have any ideas to improve the effects or the computer!?

[adamk]

Unfortunately, that's the bare minimum nvidia card that compiz will run on. I'm not sure there's much that can be done to speed compiz up, short of upgrading the video card.

Adam

[christiansb]

Okey!

But thank you for all the great answers! You helped me very much.



ps: I'm sorry for my English, but I hoped you did understand all I meant:cool: