HP 2133: How To Make Compiz and Video Work on Xubuntu 8.10
The next steps install Xubuntu 8.10 on HP 2133 Mininote is resolving the problem. After have a working Xubuntu system on 2133 usually the Video playback does not work out of the box, so to get really smooth video playback on the 2133 Mini-Note you’ll need install VLC and use for, just remember set ‘tools’-'preferences’-'video’-'output’ to ‘X11 Video output’. Now you need to enable compiz fusion.
After installing compiz fusion you’ll need to edit:
‘/usr/bin/compiz’ and change the line ‘whitelist’ to include ‘via’ in the list of drivers.
If you did it well then you should see the Compiz will then start once initiated, and run pretty smoothly, even video still plays smoothly with compiz enabled and whilst your cube is rotating.
The final steps to set up compiz to autorun at startup each time boot Xubuntu 8.10 on HP 2133 Mininote is preserve battery life, CPU scaling can be enabled by editing the grub loader using:
’sudo mousepad /boot/grub/menu.lst’
and adding ‘acpi_osi=”!Windows 2006″‘ to the end of the first line that begins with ‘kernel’.
However, probably your HP 2133 Mininote still have the problem of webcam and internal mic not work out of the box. We will resolve it next.
