After checking, this also occurs in Edgy with the shipped 8000-series and manually installed 9000-series drivers too. Inspecting the main xorg log reveals nothing unusual.
-- X crashes when using Xv or fullscreen-SDL with binary nvidia driver https://launchpad.net/bugs/73345 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
