I am trying to get rdesktop working with the same symptoms, but I am running the latest drivers from nvidia.
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 1.0-9629 Wed Nov 1 19:31:54 PST 2006 So even with the latest version of the drivers doesn't fix the problem. Am about to try turning composite off. -- gnome-terminal does not start when using xinerama and nvidia https://launchpad.net/bugs/58232 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
