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[Paulo <772207@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The reason that Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 will not work on Unity is because it's blacklisted by nux-tools, wich verifies if your graphics card is supported. All Nvidia FX models are blacklisted and some other Nvidia models too. To see if your graphics card is blacklisted just run in a Terminal window:
$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
The output will be something like this
OpenGL vendor string:   NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2
OpenGL version string:  2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.30

Not software rendered:    yes
Not blacklisted:          no
GLX fbconfig:             yes
GLX texture from pixmap:  yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program:        yes
GL fragment program:      yes
GL vertex buffer object:  yes
GL framebuffer object:    yes
GL version is 1.4+:       yes

Unity supported:          no

I've commented out the section that blacklist FX cards and recompiled nux-tools and managed to load Unity. But the icons on Dash are invisible, thats why the FX cards were blacklisted, I think. 
The problem is the unity_support_test also prevents that Compiz works in the Classic mode. Long history short, the blacklist should prevent only the not supported cards to load Unity, not Compiz. 
By the way, even removing the restriction to load Compiz, Jockey still reports that the nvidia-173 driver is not in use.

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Title:
  version 173.14.30 is buggy for GeForce FX 5200