Check if Compiz will run well on your Linux Box with Compiz Check

If you have an Intel 945 graphics card, and it’s not working check here http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2008/04/having-issues-with-i945-compiz-on-hardy.html There’s a bug preventing it from working, but I’ve got a script there to fix it.

The link to the downloadable file you provide gives a 404 error message.

On the homepage of compiz-check, the author of the software provides a rationale why:

Lately a lot of people tell me they found out about my stuff on other sites that were sharing those files and/or were given direct links to them.

Here’s why that’s not a good idea:

My projects are free software, thus I like to keep a release often, release early policy for them.

Therefore I try to update them as often as I can – which means the links to the files provided here will change.

So when linking to them directly rather than linking back to the project’s homepage, you are either giving out broken links in the long run or links to outdated software.

Another problem is that people need a place to report problems and the only place I will know about them is pretty much here.

So if you like my projects and want to spread the word (and I’m thrilled if you do), please just link to the respective project’s homepage (see sidebar on the right).

@BioGeek We’ve update the post to link to the project page. Direct link to the download that was returning a 404 has been removed.

@Shankar Ganesh thanks for the script.

would it work with a Geforce 8300gs card?

Shankar, I think Linux will go on to become mainstream soon with consumers if such features hog the limelight. I can’t wait to try it now.

How cool. When this was first released I left a comment detailing that it wasn’t working perfectly with my nvidia video card. He said he didn’t have a nvidia card to test with so he used my feedback to improve the script’s performance. That means in my own small little way I helped open source! I rule!

How is that useful? If you want to see if compiz runs on your computer, just try it? No need to run a script, just run compiz! Too much fuss for nothing if you ask me.

On the upside, I love compiz-fusion! =D

Hi Shankar,
thank you for the handy script.

Some of us would rather see a uniformly good and bug-free desktop environment, instead of all this useless (tho undoubtedly impressive) eyecandy.

Right, the spinning box thing is great. fantastic. revolutionary, even.

but i really could not care less when the fundamentals of good GUI design are bungled and partly overlooked by F/OSS coders.

You need to work on your fundamentals, first, before moving on to the next great thing and claming some sort of victory.

I agree with the guy going by ‘name’. I noticed recently someone making a rather neat looking, yet very pointless new login display screen for Linux (can’t remember its name) but other than looking pretty it, it wouldn’t serve much purpose, and probably would have taken a serious long time to get right, for something that isn’t really worth it.

I think that more Linux coders should concentrate on getting the backbone of Linux more stable and user friendly; if they are to expect it to become ‘mainstream’. One shouldn’t have to look for answers on a forum and type in ridiculous long codes to get something to work. My Mother wouldn’t know how to do any of this so how can people expect this to work for any large number of the general public, these “hardware incompatibilities” should be able to be fixed automatically.

I say this as I had to spend days finding a work around just to get my ATI graphics card to go at my monitors native resolution (1680×1050) which I did eventually get to work, so it wasn’t a real “hardware incompatibility” just naff drivers or somert. After this I then installed my audio drivers (Realtek) only for them to uninstall themselves (or just disable, I’m not too sure as its just that confusing) once I restarted my computer :S. So I’ll be sticking with XP for a long time I think.

I’ve already mentioned it to the author of this post(Shankar) that this isn’t a new thing. If you launch it from the console, Compiz/Compiz Fusion does these checks shows the *exact* same set of messages

What terminal emulator is that in the screenshot?
(or is it just a mockup)?

Nice article =)

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Could of use this program when I spent hours trying to get Compiz on my Ati card a year ago on Gutsy Gibbon.

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