GeForce 6600 GT - XORG errors - ubuntu 8.10

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while trying to enable compiz on my fresh install of ubuntu 8.10 I see
I'm having errors in Xorg.0.log

(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Error recovery failed.
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "CRT-0:nvidia-auto-select+0+0,CRT-1:nvidia-auto-select+1280+0"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA X driver has encountered too many errors.  Falling
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     back to legacy PCI mode.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.

I'm guessing this may be the reason why compiz is aborting?
Any help would be greatly appreciated

btw an early to you all.