screen/desktop corruption - nvidia binary driver - kubuntu 8.10

[duncan]

When I click on restart or shutdown buttons in Kubuntu 8.10, the screen becomes totally messy. Also sometimes I see screen artifacts when I click on K menu button. Attached an example showing the messy screen.
[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 5000X Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:25c0] (rev 31)
     Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7270]
08:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7300 GT] [10de:0393] (rev a1)

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi sailorweb2,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` too.

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[duncan (sailorweb2)]

Attached the output of `lspci -vvnn`. Could you please check it?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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In Jaunty (9.04), we are dropping the nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 package, which
is now superseded by then nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package.

  http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180

To transition your bug into the new package, we need your help. Please do the following:

 a. Verify the bug occurs in Jaunty with the -180 driver
     (ISOs: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty/)
 b. If you haven't already, please include in the bug:
     * Your /var/log/Xorg.0.log
     * Your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
     * The output of `lspci -vvnn`
     * Steps to reproduce the issue
 c. Under Affects, click the down arrow to the left of 'nvidia-graphics-drivers-177'
 d. Edit the Package to change 'nvidia-graphics-drivers-177' to 'nvidia-graphics-drivers-180'
 e. Click Save Changes

Thank you!

[We'll expire the remaining -177 bugs in a month or so.]