Comment 48 for bug 151168

How about disabling compiz by default on turbocache cards? (or this memory
leak is random?)

2007/10/25, Chris Halse Rogers <email address hidden>:
>
> Here are 3 possible workarounds:
> 1) Install the xserver-xgl package (sudo aptitude install xserver-xgl,
> will expose bugs in Wine)
> 2) Install the nvidia-glx drivers, rather than the nvidia-glx-new drivers
> (sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx, may have to remove the
> /lib/linux-restricted-modules/.nvidia_new_installed file)
> 3) Don't use compiz. (System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual
> Effects->None)
>
> Annoying as this bug is, it appears to be a bug in the *restricted*
> nVidia drivers. That means that we have *absolutely* no way of fixing
> it. This is why the Restricted Drivers manager has a big block of text
> saying essentially "we can't help you with these, you're on your own".
> If you have to be annoyed at someone, be annoyed at nVidia.
>
> nVidia has been alerted to this bug.
> «http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1420886#post1420886».
> There's pretty much nothing more we can do.
>
> --
> Memory leak in nvidia-glx-new's GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151168
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