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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 package

[nvidia-glx-new] Switching to a vt and back often makes x session unusable if compiz is running

Bug #105673 reported by VF
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: compiz

Switch to a vt (ctrl-alt-f1) and back (ctrl-alt-f7). If you do it enough times, it's sure to make the x session unusuable, or at least it does here. Maybe it's the proprietary nvidia driver's fault.

Anyway, if you can get back to ctrl-alt-f1 you can kill compiz. If not, you need to hard reboot.

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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote :

Driver bug.

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VF (vfiend) wrote :

Using nvidia-glx-new 1.0.9755+2.6.20.5-14.18, then.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report.

This sounds extremely similar to Bug #95926 ...

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

VF:
Does disabling sync to vblank by doing
gconftool -s /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/sync_to_vblank-t boolean false
make any difference?

Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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VF (vfiend) wrote :

Kind of.

When I switch back to my X session with sync_to_vblank off, compiz crashes and I'm back to metacity, but it doesn't make the session unusable.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

VF:
Since the problem directly referred to in the title of this bug has been resolved an identical fashion to another bug I'm going mark this a duplicate. Feel free to spin off the compiz crash after resume into a new bug of its own.

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 96240 and is being marked as such. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

Changed in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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