Comment 22 for bug 164589

I'm using the 'nvidia_new' driver and it was installed from the restricted driver manager. Over the last few days the problem has occurred several times. I'm very willing to trade the shorter battery lifetime in return of a fix.
I just recently installed 'Bluefish' and it seems to be another source of provoking this bug. When scrolling it will appear as I described in my above post.
To add a little more info I can tell that once the blinking has begun video output from VLC and Totem Movie Player will be corrupted and look like a scrambled image. I have read that this could be linked to another bug, but the blinking is definitely what sparks this bug on my system.

What more information can I provide here?