The Ubuntu Documentation says you are strongly not encouraged to set a password for the root account. Please see this document for more details on why you should not set a password for the root account. Use the sudo, gksu (GNOME) or kdesu (KDE) commands to perform administrative tasks instead. To use a root shell, do a sudo su.

Oh, and by the way, if you don't want the Xgl with ATI cards, you need to whitelist fglrx from the Compiz wrapper (/usr/bin/compiz), and install the latest 8.42.3 driver (available from ATI's website). Read the last post from this thread.

This post has been edited by yjwong: Nov 7 2007, 01:53 PM

What driver version did Envy download? Note that you will need ATI fglrx 8.42.3 and later to enable desktop effects without installing Xgl. Also, you will need to modify /usr/bin/compiz to whitelist the ATI fglrx driver. ATI Catalyst 7.11 will also work.

To whitelist the ATI fglrx driver, open /usr/bin/compiz as root, then find the following line:



Replace with:



Note that you need to enable to Composite and AIGLX ServerFlag in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.