Nvidia has reproduced this bug in Fedora Core 5 and opened a bug number for it. Presumably they will now fix it sometime. See post by netllama at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=73033.
It might be worthwhile for the nvidia-glx maintainers and others to keep an eye on the NVIDIA Linux forum at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14, because Nvidia sometimes posts patches to bugs there (if they can be patched in the non-binary portion of the driver) -- editing Text crash X Server https://launchpad.net/bugs/47122 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs