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I am posting this for the reason that I found my same problem all over the internet, but not with my solution.

This is the problem: Upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. Afterwards was unable to find any video card drivers, unable to run Compiz, and very horrible performance over all.

Reason: I had edited my Grub settings, changing the name on my Windows 7 option, and making it the default selection on boot. I did not allow grub to update the file, so the only options I had were old.

Solution: Upgrade to Grub2, allowing all changes. Running perfectly now.

After about a hour of tinkering I now have Compiz set up to my liking. If you happen to have read my previous (and very old) post about running Compiz on my Presario, I did it much the same. Actually, aside from not having to tinker with the install, it is the same. Ha.

For those that do not know what Compiz is, it is a desktop effect program. Tons of things are capable with it. If you would like to see it in action scroll on down and click the Youtube link.

Basically, for my Asus U81A, all I had to do was click Applications>Add/Remove, search for “compiz” and install the “Advance Dedsktop Effects Settings.” Before doing so, I did have to enable multiverse in Software Sources. And that was it.

I plan on adding a video, as soon as I find a desktop recorder for Ubuntu that I like. (Recommendations are cool!)

Update: Since I am having trouble recording my desktop without stutters and such, here is a youtube video showing off tons of the effects Compiz is capable of: “Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Beta with Compiz effects Test.”

Well, I have a previous post with many steps. But after installing a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10 I was able to skip all that and do just one simple step for Compiz Fusion. Well, maybe two steps:

Step 1. Click System > Administration > Hardware Drivers, and enable “ATI accelerated graphics driver”. Let is install what you need, and reboot when it says to. Then upon reboot:

Step 2. Use this command in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager gnome-art usplash startupmanager

And reboot again, and your set! You can now go to System > Preferances > Advanced Desktop Effects Settings, and set Compiz Fusion how you would like. You can follow the tuturial I used in the previous guide for this, Forlong’s Compiz Fusion Customization Guide.

This is from the Ubuntu Utah Ubuntu Forums. It took me well over a week to find this. If you follow this guide you will be able to get Compiz Fusion running perfect with a Presario V5000 laptop. These laptops have the ATI Radeon Xpress 200M series graphics card. Read the rest of this article »