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Location: Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, United States

Monday, August 20, 2007

Compiz on Dell Inspiron 1420N Working

I have followed many tutorials for how to get Compiz working on Ubuntu 7.04 aka Feisty Fawn. However all up untill today have either hosed my system or not worked. However, today in the Linux Action Show forums oblong sent me a link to something that did work. Check the tread here. Also the information I used is available here. Ok, here is what to do step by step.

1) edit your /etc/apt/sources.list by typing 
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

2) change these lines:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main restricted universe multiverse

To this:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted universe multiverse

then save the file

3) Then run these commands
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -t gutsy install xserver-xorg-video-intel
(I got some errors but nothing that seemed fatal so I just ignored them)

sudo apt-get -t gutsy install linux

sudo apt-get -t gutsy install libgl1-mesa-dri

4) Go into the System->prefs->Desktop Effects and enable the effects they should just work now NO CRASHING like before... (note I did not try to enable the 3d cube as I only use one workspace)

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