Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package

  1. Bug #164589
  2. Comment #54

Comment 54 for bug 164589

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Rimas (rimas-kalpokas) wrote :

The bug persisted for all lifetime of my HP Pavilion dv6018ea. I can attest that it certainly is not ubuntu-specific, but rather nvidia-driver specific issue. The last version of ubuntu that I tried was 10.04 LTS.

A possible work-around for all those that still have these machines is to switch to the open source nvidia driver (nouveau, the default nvidia driver in ubuntu since version 11.04 perhaps). The performance, of course, will be hurt, but the annoying screen-wide blinks will be avoided.

I am not re-opening this bug since my HP Pavilion died a third time last year and I do not think an investment to resurrect it is worth it.