I am experiencing the "failing 3d texture size check" issue too. This used to work a few weeks ago. I have an r200 with 32mb video ram. lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01) starting compiz from the terminal: Checking for Xgl: not present. Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 1002:4c66 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) 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 (1024): Failed. aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
My screen resolution is 1280x1024. And finally: $ dpkg -l |grep -i compiz ii compiz 1:0.6.0+git20071008-0ubuntu1 OpenGL window and compositing manager ii compiz-core 1:0.6.0+git20071008-0ubuntu1 OpenGL window and compositing manager ii compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.5.2+git20070928-0ubuntu1 Collection of extra plugins from OpenComposi ii compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.5.2+git20070928-0ubuntu2 Collection of plugins from OpenCompositing f ii compiz-gnome 1:0.6.0+git20071008-0ubuntu1 OpenGL window and compositing manager - GNOM ii compiz-plugins 1:0.6.0+git20071008-0ubuntu1 OpenGL window and compositing manager - plug ii compizconfig-settings-manager 0.5.2+git20070912-0ubuntu1 Compiz configuration settings manager ii libcompizconfig-backend-gconf 0.5.2+git20071010-0ubuntu1 Settings library for plugins - OpenCompositi ii libcompizconfig0 0.5.2+git20070919-0ubuntu3 Settings library for plugins - OpenCompositi ii libdecoration0 1:0.6.0+git20071008-0ubuntu1 Compiz window decoration library ii python-compizconfig 0.5.2+git20070912-0ubuntu1 Compiz configuration system bindings -- Gutsy regression - compiz no longer starts with a failed 3d texture size check https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141543 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs