Comment 12 for bug 365885

I tried Zero's solution of rolling back to the 173 version of the NVidia Driver using the "Hardware Drivers" configurator. This fixed my problem. The symptoms I was having as follows:

    Configuration/Environment:

    1. Compiz
    2. Emeral Theme Decorator
    3. Cube Rotation, Reflection, and many other "Effects" enabled

    Symptom:

    Any time I "Maximized" a window the display completely froze. I was unable to switch terminals and not even Ctrl-Alt-Backspace worked (I had re-enabled Ctrl-Alt-Backspace using the 'dontzap' command). The only way to make anything at all happen was to power-off the machine and perform and hard re-boot.

    Of course, re-booting like this tended to corrupt the "Tracker" indexes. What a mess!

    Anyway, rolling back to version 173 of the Nvida driver so far has fixed the problem. Yay! Thanks Zero!

   THIS IS A HORRIBLE BUG! THIS IS THE LAST NVIDIA VIDEO CARD MACHINE I WILL EVER PURCHASE!

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    PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, INTEL/AMD PRODUCE GOOD FLOSS DRIVERS ASAP! I'M TIRED OF THIS KIND OF THING BECAUSE OF CLOSED-SOURCE CRAPPY DRIVERS! Nvidia, SERIOUSLY, consider your customers, can't things be better than this? Is this the best you can do?
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