Same. Trying to enable compiz via System/Preferences/Appearance results in a X restart. Forcing compiz via 'compiz --replace' works.
9.10 up-to-date, Radeon X1250. I am not sure when it started (one week ago?); to get things back to working state under metacity I was still forced to 'metacity --replace', since metacity seems to be defaulting to --composite nowadays.
Same. Trying to enable compiz via System/ Preferences/ Appearance results in a X restart. Forcing compiz via 'compiz --replace' works.
9.10 up-to-date, Radeon X1250. I am not sure when it started (one week ago?); to get things back to working state under metacity I was still forced to 'metacity --replace', since metacity seems to be defaulting to --composite nowadays.
For me, to reproduce: all I need is to login.