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[matteo sisti sette <797878@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem was caused by the Nvidia beta drivers.

Before upgrading to 10.10, I had the stable Nvidia drivers installed.
When I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10, the beta drivers got automatically installed without either asking or warning.

This is still a bug, as the upgrade shouldn't switch to beta drivers
without asking, and a distribution should never install such  unusable
unstable untested beta crap. Only drivers that have been thoroughly
tested should be installed by default, anything else should only be
installed if the user choses so, especially if it is so tremendously
unstable.

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Title:
  random pieces of graphics displayed all around, display is a mess

Status in APT:
  New
Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  I have no idea in which package the bug may be, as this affects the
  whole system, but it is absolutely CRITICAL as it makes the whole
  operating system unusable, This is a regression and started happening
  after upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10

  Pieces of graphic contents (e.g. a portion of a video from youtube or
  of some graphics generated by an application) persist after the
  application is closed, and sometimes are displayed even ON TOP of
  other windows.

  After a few minutes of using the system, the display is a total mess.

  It would be nice to know if there is at least a workaround for
  cleaning the display without rebooting.

  I'm under the impression this may be some problem with the display
  card graphics, as it seems to happen mainly with applications which I
  think use hardware acceleration, such as Flash Plugin, most video
  players, and applications using OpenGL.

  I've noticed that when I boot the computer, an Nvidia screen is shown
  with the big red word "Beta", which I hadn't seen before upgrading to
  10.10.

  Is it possible to have the stable drivers back?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: gnome (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Jun 15 21:11:59 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: meta-gnome2

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