Comment 99 for bug 760632

@Yusef: have you actually tried the 275.09.07 driver, or 275.09.04? The 275 driver(s) before that would not include the fix (I ran into that problem too), and I don't know about any beta 280.

Anyway "nouveau" would probably be preferable over the "nv" driver, from my experience. If you don't need 3D acceleration, it can be quite a good option (also supporting transparent Konsole).