compiz effects

[Hans Müller]

lostson schrieb:
>  Hello 
>  I was trying out compiz this morning and turned it on via the gui in
> the system preferences. When trying to turn them off via the gui again
> it locks my system up hard. Have to do a hard reboot. Has anyone else
> seen this ? Is this a bug I should file or has it already been filed.
> And I'm guessing I should use beryl instead ? I also tried turning the
> effects off in the terminal with a metacity --replace and still would
> lock up bad. 
> 
I have the same problem.
The temporally solution is to login vi ssh and run su -c "killall -9 Xorg".
I use an nvidia card.