Comment 71 for bug 130325

What you describe *is* compiz fusion. And it's not that simple, first
it's something we added in to fix another issue, second realistically
it's nvidia at fault... Do I condone us taking the highroad and leaving
it in so nvidia will fix it's issue... I'm torn. I don't think they'll
learn anything, but at the same time we shouldn't hack alternate fixes
for their blunder. This is an upstream patch now, they have to get their
blob to work with it or it simply... well won't work.

wgscott wrote:
> Even without Compiz (or Beryl), the same problem arises if you turn
> desktop effects compositing on (drop shadow on windows and so forth).
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> May I humbly suggest the offending patch simply be removed?
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> ChrisC wrote:
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>> 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...
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>> Is this *defiantly* an nvidia bug, are people really sure that there isnt
>> a bug with the clipping patch for xorg?
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>> Can the clipping patch not be altered to take into account nvidia
>> drivers?
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>> 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...
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>> 3vi1 wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> [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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