things seem to be working well now. As BUGabundo pointed out it would help to up the package version there, since trying this fix otherwise requires removing/reinstalling the older compiz packages, and adding a pin-priority entry in /etc/apt/preferences to do it the sources.list way.
$ lspci -n |grep 300
01:00.0 0300: 10de:042b (rev a1)
$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 135M (rev a1)
I had this problem, most easily reproducible switching between firefox tabs.
After trying the fix at:
https:/ /launchpad. net/~aplattner/ +archive
things seem to be working well now. As BUGabundo pointed out it would help to up the package version there, since trying this fix otherwise requires removing/ reinstalling the older compiz packages, and adding a pin-priority entry in /etc/apt/ preferences to do it the sources.list way.