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nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 package

  1. Bug #1314367
  2. Comment #44

Comment 44 for bug 1314367

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Dan Kegel (dank) wrote : Re: Flickering with Ubuntu 14.04 and nvidia card reappeared

fwiw: I hit this using the latest from Nvidia's download site, and
also using the xorg-edgers ppa ( 346.47-0ubuntu1-xedgers14.04.1 ).
The flipping in the terminal seems to be at the same speed as the cursor blink.
I only noticed it in gnome terminal. xterm does not exhibit the problem.
My system's a Dell T7500 with a Geforce gtx 570 running somewhat up to date ubuntu 14.04.1

"CCSM>Workarounds>Force synchronization between X and GLX"
seemed to help a bit initially, but the problem is still present enough
to make gnome terminal nearly unusable.

"nvidia-settings -a GPUPowerMizerMode=1" seems to help more. With that,
I haven't seen the flipping in my 30 seconds of extensive testing.

Like Tom, I don't think I can install a new OS on this system, but I guess I might
have time to boot the live cd sometime.