I have an HD 4850, and have confirmed compiz now works properly on the new fglrx 8.66 driver. The problem was that fglrx did not support compositing very well in the past, but it seems solid now.
** Changed in: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- ati driver is enabled, but "Desktop effects could not be enabled" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417500 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs