$ compiz –replace &
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 01:00.0 0300: 10de:01d7 (rev a1) (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 (3040×1024) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting emerald
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

sweet! i broke my setup. i’ll never figure out why i have such issues with laptops & docking stations. good thing i have backup xorg.confs, guess i’ll have to go back and make sure i have the right settings. i have a feeling that Xgl isn’t gonna be the only thing missing from my xorg.conf.

here’s some ubuntu/compiz/xorg.conf links
[help.ubuntu.com][ubuntuguide][technowizah][blog.anantshri][compiz/ubuntu]