I'm changing this back to confirmed because it is clearly a userland bug, not a driver bug - some users in the bug reports that are marked as duplicates of this bug have indicated that they are running Intel and ATI systems as well as Nvidia.
On my own system, I have an nVidia GF6800 card, using the 185-series driver, running in Twinview mode with two 1280x1024 Dell flat panel monitors. GLX is most definitely working fine - glxgears (whether it is a benchmark or not) gives me over 20,000 frames per second, and apps like Google Earth, OpenArena, and so on work perfectly fine. XFCE's composite manager runs perfectly fine and has no issues whatsoever that I've noticed. I have of course tried disabling it before attempting to run Compiz, but that of course doesn't work. Compiz simply will not work for me. All the windows get hidden briefly, then shown without window decorations for a moment, and then once in a while I can *just* catch the window decorations changing to what Emerald provides. Whether Emerald is visible or not, compiz only lasts for a split second before dieing with a segmentation fault: ----- vane...@rainbird:~$ compiz --replace Checking for Xgl: not present. xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log Detected PCI ID for VGA: Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present. Checking for non power of two support: present. Checking for Composite extension: present. Checking screen 1Comparing resolution (2560x1024) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed. Checking for Software Rasterizer: Not present. Checking for nVidia: present. Checking for FBConfig: present. Checking for Xgl: not present. Couldn't find a perfect decorator match; trying all decorators Starting emerald /usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format Segmentation fault [ I have to hit control-C after the segfault to restore the ] [ XFCE window manager and get my prompt back ] vane...@rainbird:~$ ----- The above is while running XFCE. Gnome also fails to start compiz, though the error it gives is a generic "couldn't be started" error dialog. I don't know what that 8bit pixmap format is about, as I'm running in 24 bit mode. On my husband's box, which has an even older nVidia MX4000 running the 96-series driver, with only one fairly non-descript 1280x1024 Dell flat panel (i.e. no multi-head), compiz runs fine. -- gtk-window-decorator crashed with signal 5 in g_logv() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122389 You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
