Posted by ariekenb on Oct 20, 2010; 1:46am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Instability-with-nvidia-260-drivers-tp1721802p1736073.html

After more experiments I think there is a general problem with the Java2D OpenGL pipeline and the NVIDIA 260.xx drivers.  Even normal Swing applications that don't use JOGL do not display correctly with the NVIDIA 260.xx drivers and -Dsun.java2d.opengl=true.

The workaround of setting -Dsun.java2d.opengl.fbobject=false fixes the display for 2D applications and JOGL applications, but it does not prevent the X server from crashing when the Java app shuts down.

I posted a thread about it here on the NVIDIA linux forum: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2334240  Hopefully someone from NVIDIA will take a look.

I wounder if it would be good to open a bug on bugs.sun.com too?