using compiz causes full screen videos to crash

This is actually an error in the memory management in your driver. I'm pretty sure I've only seen this on the ati driver so I've assigned it there as you did not give any details about your computer. Please reassign to the correct driver if that is not correct.

Actually, it's a nvidia geforce 6600 gt

Hi jamesm51,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` and `dmesg`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you're using a custom /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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Thank you for reporting this issue about xserver-xorg-video-nv. Starting with Lucid, Ubuntu is transitioning to using the -nouveau video driver by default instead of -nv. The reason for this change is because upstream development for the -nv driver has been quite slow. We hope bugs will get fixed faster with -nouveau as well.

Because of this, I'm closing this bug report at this time. I'm marking it incomplete because what you describe is probably a valid issue, but we do not have intentions to work on it in Ubuntu. If you would still like to see this issue investigated, I would encourage you to file it upstream.

Please mark this bus as won't fix.

This is not a bug in the -nv driver, which is the official open-source nvidia driver, because the -nv driver doesn't have any 3D acceleration.

It is a bug in the binary nvidia driver; I'm re-assigning to the correct package and removing the incomplete status.

I'm also having the same issue (with compiz enabled) when maximizing the video player.
I'm on 9.10, NVIDIA Driver 190.32, Quadro NVS 110M (256 MB with TurboCache)

My xorg.conf is:

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Configured Monitor"
 Device "Configured Video Device"
 DefaultDepth 24
EndSection

Section "Module"
 Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
 Driver "nvidia"
 Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Note that I have
COMPIZ_OPTIONS="$COMPIZ_OPTIONS --indirect-rendering "
in /usr/bin/compiz to avoid the full-screen black windows problem

for example:
attila@blackbird:~/Desktop$ vlc urka.avi
VLC media player 1.0.2 Goldeneye
[0x16a3888] main libvlc: Esecuzione di vlc con l'interfaccia predefinita. Usa 'cvlc' per utilizzare vlc senza interfaccia.
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
[0x359a588] pulse audio output: No. of Audio Channels: 2
[????????] x11 video output error: X11 request 133.19 failed with error code 11:
 BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request: 133 (XVideo)
  Minor opcode of failed request: 19 ()
  Serial number of failed request: 102
  Current serial number in output stream: 103

attila@blackbird:~/Desktop$ totem urka.avi
The program 'totem' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 353 error_code 11 request_code 133 minor_code 19)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

attila@blackbird:~/Desktop$ mplayer urka.avi
MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing urka.avi.
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [XVID] 720x576 12bpp 25.000 fps 274.0 kbps (33.5 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 Software: MEncoder UNKNOWN-4.4.1
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 c...