Comment 1 for bug 152954

I don't think that's correct, at least not when using the nvidia binary drivers (nvidia-glx-new).

I've purged libgl1-mesa-dri and compiz starts ok:
$ compiz --replace
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Detected PCI ID for VGA: 05:00.0 0300: 10de:0140 (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Comparing resolution (1920x1200) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for nVidia: present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting kde-window-decorator
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format