wild.ideas: "That being the case, perhaps someone ought to prove it out by installing the Nvidia drivers from the 8.04 era into a fresh install of 9.10 and demonstrating that binary nvidia + compiz + xdamage enabled = no problem.
Or has this been done already?" That cannot be done since those drivers do not support the current kernel / xserver. One reason drivers get updated is exactely to provide support for these newer software pieces. Has anyone ever managed to get a statement from a nvidia employee at nvnews concerning this issue? -- Compiz / vnc screen refresh with nvidia-restricted driver/VirtualBox/ATI fglrx driver using X.org prior to release 7.5 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353126 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp