Comment 79 for bug 760632

I can also confirm that using the 275.09.04 drivers package from the "philip5 ppa" resolved the various issues for me too. In fact it seems to work remarkably well. No more nasty screen artefacts, no more random crashes from gnome-terminal or gedit. Whilst I still maintain that NVIDIA was very slow to investigate the issue, once it actually started addressing the issue, it has resolved it commendably quickly.

As a side issue, I was interested to note that Philip Johnnson describes his personal package archive as a "Ubuntu experimental rolling release repository." By adding his PPA to one's repository list means that one receives updated versions of many other applications. I'm very interested to see how that pans out because I have found the concept of a "rolling version" rather intriguing.

If a rolling edition of (K)Ubuntu eventually comes to pass, then will it mark the end of rushed, untested versions of (K)Ubuntu, banged out quick, with serious bugs such as this, just in order to meet artificial deadlines? Or will it lumber users with more bugs not fewer? Interesting...