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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.