Comment 8 for bug 392850

Ok, being the impatient type, I downloaded nvidia-graphics-drivers-190 and from Michael Marley's ppa and rebooted. No problems with mutter, so I opened aterminal window, typed "compiz --replace" and was rudely thron back to metacity with the error message "No whitelisted drivers found". Then, in a spark of inspiration / fit of extreme annoyance, I modified /usr/bin/compiz line 304 to return 0 instead of 1, and, again, in my open terminal window, typed "compiz --replace" It seems to be working. Did I just get lucky?

 /usr/bin$ compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log
No whitelisted driver found
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Checking screen 1Comparing resolution (1680x1050) to maximum 3D texture size (8192): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: Not present.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
running under gnome seesion, checking for gnomecompat
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting gtk-window-decorator
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format