3d Compositing Using ATi HD 3400 R600 on Ubuntu

I've been using Kubuntu with KDE4 for quite a while now and I've gotten used to kwin compositing so much I'm a little lost without it.

I gained a new Toshiba Satellite laptop with a dodgy implementation of an ATi R600 chip in there which is only currently supported by the open-source Radeon X driver for 2d. The binary fglrx driver doesn't work at all on this laptop so I'm stuck with the X driver.

To get 3d working you currently need to live on the bleeding edge (until Lucid) and install the latest Ubuntu 2.6.32 kernel and add the xorg-edgers PPA.

For the kernel go to http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ and download the latest 2.6.32 kernel, source and headers for your architecture. Install them using

dpkg - i *2.6.32*deb

Then add the xorg-edgers PPA by putting  

ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa


in your Software Sources. Reload and Do all updates. Reboot and you should have composite X. Ensure everything to do with fglrx has been removed though.