Comment 68 for bug 130325

Even without Compiz (or Beryl), the same problem arises if you turn
desktop effects compositing on (drop shadow on windows and so forth).

May I humbly suggest the offending patch simply be removed?

ChrisC wrote:
> making compiz enabled by default with this issue *regardless* of blame
> would be disastrous and could seriously dent efforts to correct bug #1
> it could even mean Ubuntu becoming a minor bit player of distros...
>
> Is this *defiantly* an nvidia bug, are people really sure that there isnt
> a bug with the clipping patch for xorg?
>
> Can the clipping patch not be altered to take into account nvidia
> drivers?
>
> theres a legacy nvidia an open source nvidia an older nvidia and
> an nividia-glx-new driver why not an nvidia-mobile driver too :o)
>
> enabling compiz by default with this bug could kill Ubuntu.
> This needs sorting *well* before November October is only
> a few weeks away...
>
> 3vi1 wrote:
>> I hope nVidia gets on the ball and releases a new driver in time for
>> everyone to test before Gutsy final (now that it has been voted that
>> Compiz will be enabled by default). If they don't, I think Gutsy will
>> end up looking very unstable to users unfamiliar with the underlying
>> causes.
>>
>> I have this problem on my 7600GT-based system and it's getting annoying
>> to switch window managers every time I want to run an OpenGL app. I do
>> *not* hope the 'buntu maintainers build Xorg without patch 132 as a
>> workaround though, as that completely removes all incentive for nVidia
>> to fix the real problem.
>>
>> In answer to Sitsofe's ABI observation, I would think that nVidia would
>> simply put an item in the release notes indicating that the newer driver
>> is only for Xorg (insert version # / patch level here) and later. It
>> would be up to the repackagers to set dependencies for each version to
>> their related Xorg packages.
>>
>> -J
>>
>>
>
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> [nvidia-glx] 3D GL apps crash X when using compiz due to unmaked ABI
> change (gutsy)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130325
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