How are, comercial restricted videocards, enabled? How do you enable them manually?

You should see this icon in the tray: [ubuntu.com]

Is there any chance Ubuntu 7.10 will work out-of-the-box in Virtual PC 2007?

Not directly out of the box but pretty close, you have to run in safe graphics mode, and there’s a tweak you need to do to get the mouse working.

I’ve got step by step instructons at:
[arcanecode.wordpress.com]

Hope it helps…

Of course Compiz Fusion isn’t going to work from a Live CD, it is something that should only be tested once the Operating System has been installed on the Hard Disk for it to make full use of your computers hardware. Otherwise, it’d be freaking slow as a wet week and you’d go deaf from the DVD drive spinning up and down all the time.

Well, I figured if Mandriva could enable similar effects on their Live CD then it shouldn’t be a problem with Ubuntu.

Tried that, too.

Of course Compiz Fusion isn’t going to work from a Live CD, it is something that should only be tested once the Operating System has been installed on the Hard Disk for it to make full use of your computers hardware. Otherwise, it’d be freaking slow as a wet week and you’d go deaf from the DVD drive spinning up and down all the time.

Also, you need to manually enable your video cards restricted (commercial) drivers before you can even use Compiz Fusion (System -> Administration -> Restricted Drivers Manager). These drivers aren’t enabled by default.

Live CD’s are awesome. I’m convinced my hard drive has some physical damage from when my power supply went bad (I know it fried my video card) and my XP and Kubuntu installs are both broken but I can still use my computer. I just had my Kubuntu 7.04 Live CD running for almost a week before it finally crashed.