Make Compiz(Beryl) Work on Ubuntu on Inspiron 8200 with Nvidia GeForce2 GO Video Card

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:49:22 -0700

My co-workers run Compiz(Beryl) on Ubuntu. I was so impressed by the visual desktop effect that I wanted to try it on my old Inspiron 8200 laptop. It turned out not to be a easy task.

Installation

I installed Xubuntu first because it's less resource demanding than Ubuntu. But it turned out that it's not straightforward to install Compiz on Xubuntu.

I had to install ubuntu-desktop to simplify the Compiz setup first.

Go to System => Preferences => Synaptic Package Manager, install "ubuntu-desktop", “xserver-xgl”,

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Make Compiz(Beryl) Work on Ubuntu on Inspiron 8200 with Nvidia GeForce2 GO Video Card

Installation