Compiz on a crappy old 32mb card.

Jan 11, 2008 @ 07:05 pm by Administrator

I’ve been playing around with ubuntu a lot and decided to start remaking the old computer into a linux workstation.  To cut down on the god awfull noise I switched over to an old gf2 MX200 card.  It’s sucky, but it’s silent.

Turns out compiz wouldn’t work, it just refused to start at all.  After a bunch of mucking about I found that editing compiz is all I needed to do.  There’s a line in there that specifies the minimum amount of ram needed to run compiz.  Sneaky and simple.  I just changed that to an acceptably low number and compiz starts right up.  The down side is that a few things are just damned slow.  And wobbly windows don’t quite work……right.  They wobble, but not…..right.

WOBBLY WINDOWS,
Phosphers

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