I've upgraded the OS on the affected computer to trusty and found that the problem is still present in trusty's version of nux. Same symptoms, and my patch still applies.
** Tags added: precise trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to nux in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1103961 Title: nux::IOpenGLShaderProgram::Begin crashes on nVidia 10de:00fd Status in “nux” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After upgrading to precise and activating nvidia-173 (173.14.35) on a machine with the following graphics card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV37GL [Quadro PCI-E Series] [10de:00fd] (rev a2) /usr/bin/compiz started to crash with the exact same symptoms as in bug #768178. (I'm filing a new bug since that one is marked as a duplicate of a quite different bug that is itself marked as invalid.) This isn't too surprising since the graphics card is a close relative of the GeForce FX series, various flavours of which are already blacklisted in nux. Forcing Unity 2D works around the problem, so I've applied the attached patch on top of nux 2.14.1-0ubuntu1. Maybe one could set _use_glsl_shaders = false in NuxGraphics/GraphicsEngine.cpp instead but I don't have the time to test this conjecture. glGetString(GL_RENDERER) returns "Quadro PCI-E Series/PCI/SSE2" for this card and driver. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nux/+bug/1103961/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
