Comment 127 for bug 729979

Just a quick remark about the Nvidia/non Nvidia bug issue. Smspillaz, before leaving the compiz project, has written a long post about dealing with proprietary graphic drivers (meaning NVIDIA).

He mentionned this bug in it. Here is what he wrote : " In addition to that, we’re fighting lots of strange quirks where texture binding is randomly failing."

http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/on-the-future-of-graphics-drivers/

So the compiz guys are aware of the bug. And they consider it Nvidia related. But the main point of his post was to say he didn't like to write hack to solve that kind of problem.

Anyway, either they don't work hard enough on it, or it's just not solvable, they haven't found that hack. And one of the basic functionnalities of unity is not working properly on lots of computer, as Nvidia drivers are pervasive.