I have the exact same problem on Jaunty with NVidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1)
Compiz is actually able to restart fine from the appearance prefs dialog, which, from looking at the source code just runs "compiz --replace", but for whatever reason running that same command in a terminal will fail with the above error.
I have the exact same problem on Jaunty with NVidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1)
Compiz is actually able to restart fine from the appearance prefs dialog, which, from looking at the source code just runs "compiz --replace", but for whatever reason running that same command in a terminal will fail with the above error.