Comment 46 for bug 212648

I can confirm the driver from Hardy Proposed fixes this problem. I reverted the workaround before updating the driver to make sure it would work for someone that didn't do the workaround. And it's working fine now, no more crashes.

:~$ apt-cache policy nvidia-glx-new
nvidia-glx-new:
  Installed: 169.12+2.6.24.12-17.36
  Candidate: 169.12+2.6.24.12-17.36
  Version table:
 *** 169.12+2.6.24.12-17.36 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     169.12+2.6.24.12-16.34 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Packages