My first Day in Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10
October 19, 2007
18th October 2007: Ubuntu release its new Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10.
I’ve read many posts of Ubuntu users that talks about Ubuntu and the new release. I’m a Debian user and yesterday I’ve decided to switch to Ubuntu because I’ve see that Ubuntu packages are released from many software house. Ubuntu have the best support on the web, it’s community is the largest I’ve ever seen. Ubuntu is based on Debian and for these reasons I make my switch. I’ve download and installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my PC in 30 minutes.
When the system was up and running I’ve see a surprise coming from automatic ATI driver installation: System -> Administration -> Restricted Driver Manager.
My next step was to turning on Special Desktop Effects of Compiz: System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Extra Effects. But compiz don’t start! Error: “Composite Extension was disabledâ€.
Next I’ve switched option composite from 0 to 1 on “/etc/X11/xorg.confâ€:
Section “Extensions”
Option         “Composite”    “1″
EndSection
Compiz don’t start… why?? What happened??
I try to start compiz by Shell and I’ve see this error: “Checking for Xgl: not present.â€
So, I’ve installed xserver-xgl with: “apt-get install xserver-xglâ€.
Compiz Works!!
Only a bug whit GL Desktop to manage compiz configuration under Gnome. In fact, if you want install by “apt-get install gnome-compiz-manager†you will see “GL Desktop†on System -> Preferences. If you try to start it, GL Desktop don’t start, became a zombie process. While GL Desktop is a zombie process try to change Desktop Effects, and GL Desktop will run! I think this bug will be fixed soon!
I will do many others test on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10, now I can says only that Ubuntu Gutsy have some problems.
“Checking for Xgl: not present.”
That is expected behavior. You should be using aiglx.