These unrelated problems may happen to you, but things like freezing out temporarily don't happen to everyone.. Your own logic can be turned around.. Those who don't want it can easily turn it off =] This problem will be fixed with the next nvidia release which will most assuredly have to be passed back in to gutsy, even if hardy work has started.
David Megginson wrote: > I'm an experienced user (Linux since 1993, Minix before that), but I > lost several hours before I realized that glxgears and FlightGear were > crashing X due to compiz. I *strongly* recommend disabling compiz by > default in gutsy, since it provides nothing but eye candy, and having it > running means that 3D apps will crash X by default in gutsy for all > boxes running new NVIDIA cards -- it's easy enough to enable in the GUI > for people who want it. Functionality should always win over flash. > > Even when I'm not trying to run 3D apps, compiz seems very awkward on my > new HP TX1220 compared with metacity -- there are sometimes freezes of > several seconds, for example, especially when I'm trying to edit in > OpenOffice. It may be cute, but it's not practical. > > -- [nvidia-glx] 3D GL apps crash X when using compiz due to unmaked ABI change (gutsy) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130325 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
