Io ho aggiornato compiz con le repository, ma se lo lancio da terminale con il comando "compiz", mi da questa risposta:

codice:
alex@alex-ubuntu:~$ compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present. 
FATAL: Error inserting battery (/lib/modules/2.6.24-18-generic/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.ko): Operation not permitted
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 00:02.0 0300: 8086:2a02 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present. 
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present. 
Checking for non power of two support: present. 
Checking for Composite extension: present. 
Comparing resolution (1280x800) to maximum 3D texture size (2048): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: not present. 
Checking for FBConfig: present. 
Checking for Xgl: not present. 
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format
GConf backend: There is an unsupported value at path /apps/compiz/plugins/scale/allscreens/options/initiate_edge. Settings from this path won't be read. Try to remove that value so that operation can continue properly.
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: no 'mousepoll' plugin with ABI version '20080116' loaded

/usr/bin/compiz.real (ezoom) - Error: InitObject failed
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Couldn't activate plugin 'ezoom'
Perchè?