> finally switched back to using the neuveau drivers which work just fine > for my needs.
And finally, me too : nouveau was always entirely unusable and very unstable on this hardware (the "legendary" overheating 8600M GT, see nvidiadefect.com && wikipedia), up to and including 3.4.7 kernel at least. With 3.6.6-1 (or earlier), all these nouveau bugs affecting this card seem to be fixed now, video and opengl look great, xrandr works, system is even significantly cooler *and* more reactive than with nvidia driver, which was already "just fine for my needs"... 5-10º and 20%, how can ? Day 2, counting ;-)
