My old and sluggish TravelMate 630 (632XCi) from Acer has its legacy VGA, GeForce2 Go NVIDIA. There has been a blog, or more like a fancy rumor, that a Linuxer has succeeded to use compiz in Ubuntu 7.4. Encouraged by the fancy story, I have tried it very hard to enable compiz in my old machine. However, it turned out that I spent my time for nothing.
In the latest Ubuntu 9.10 and its updates by today (26 Sep 2009), I could see some bright light. It is likely that compiz has been fixed to work fine with my TM630 at last! Still, the system is not stable and freezes as if XP does with blue screens.
I am now quite positive about how Ubuntu 9.10 would enhance my life with this old machine. I am looking forward to its stable version.
Posted by Minkee
