This happens with the latest and previous releases of the Catalyst/fglrx drivers with Fedora 8 (kernel 2.6.26)

When I quit Nexuiz, the screen darkens slightly and appears to hang. I need to Ctrl+Alt+F1 into a console and kill nexuiz from there (signal 15). Then the colsole goes bonkers, and I don't mean text spew like when you cat /dev/random, but flashing sets of corrupt glyphs. BUT, it's not a total hang as everything works again when I Ctrl+Alt+F7 back into X.

Trying to kill Nexuiz from the colsole (sending it signal 15 twice) without trying to quit from within Nexuiz causes a hard hang that needs a reset.

Is this the same ATI bug that the SVN workaround addresses?

At least it looks like that bug. On XP and Vista (and Linux as well iirc) there are similar crashes while quitting or vid_restart since Catalyst 8.9. Concerning Nexuiz 2.42.

That's also Xorg and kernel bug then. App/driver crash shouldn't require restart (ideally).

Sounds like the engine workaround in svn would help.. but then the bug in the ati drivers got even worse now Well done ATI..