Garbled Screen With Compiz

I am setting up my dad's laptop with a 64bit install of opensuse. Overall, it's been great. Wireless worked right after installing the broadcom firmware, sound works fine, and with a bit of help from haribon (thanks!) I have the ati drivers working and the proper screen rez. Now I am trying to set up compiz on his machine. My dad (and myself) is not much into eyecandy, but I want to show him a few tricks. He has a ATI Radeon Mobility x1270. Rather low end, but I have run compiz without a problem on much cheesier cards. I installed compiz following the directions on the wiki. Everything installed fine, but on rebooting, I had a garbled screen. It logged in fine, and everything was acting normal (touchpad, sound, etc) but the screen was a mess. I seem to recall reading other posts on this problem but I can't seem to fiid them now. Any ideas?

Here is a link that mighthelp
http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/200...opensuse-howto/
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_compiz-fusion

You just can't stop helping me out, can't you! I'll check those out.

You just can't stop helping me out, can't you! I'll check those out.
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He, He, why you don't want it
Not necessary coming from me, I am just giving link that might be of help.
The urge to help sometimes can be addictive B) h34r:

Hmm, interesting. It does seem strange that I would have to manually edit the xorg.config file if I was following the "official" suse docs. I don't have a problem doing it manually, though I have bad memories of when I somehow managed to erase my /etc/X11 directory!

Hmm, interesting. It does seem strange that I would have to manually edit the xorg.config file if I was following the "official" suse docs. I don't have a problem doing it manually, though I have bad memories of when I somehow managed to erase my /etc/X11 directory!
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Hmn, looks like you need to backup and roll your sleeves and start troube shooting