Comment 10 for bug 303224

Similar story here:
I have a macbook pro 4.1 (core 2duo) with an uptodate ubuntu 8.10. the terminal urxvt give the most refresh problems. When it spits out long lists (like for 'locate e') the terminal screen gets scrambled). Even sometimes the update manager screen list (of to-be-updated ubuntu items) scrambles. I've not seen a difference between the 173 and 177 drivers.

I now switched from compiz to metacity, which resolved the problem, so I'd say that the problem is purely graphics card. (never a program crashed or complained about the scrambling).