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[Ryan <acu192@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd been experiencing this bug for a few days now. It stared after
installing the proprietary NVIDIA driver. It was SUPER annoying. But I
installed compiz from trusty-proposed and it plagues me no longer!

Before, this bug would show itself once every few minutes. But now, it's
been about 4 hours with no sign of it! And I haven't noticed any new
bugs either.

Not sure what info you all need, but here's some:

ryan@charles:~$ compiz --version
Compiz 0.9.11.3
ryan@charles:~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  340.29  Thu Jul 31 20:23:19 PDT 2014
GCC version:  gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) 

Let me know if you need any more info. And thank you so much.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269904

Title:
  Screen refresh problems with nvidia cards

Status in Compiz:
  Fix Released
Status in Compiz 0.9.11 series:
  In Progress
Status in Compiz Core:
  New
Status in Compiz Core 0.9.8 series:
  New
Status in compiz package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in compiz-fusion-plugins-main package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in compiz-plugins-main package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in compiz source package in Precise:
  New
Status in compiz-plugins-main source package in Precise:
  Confirmed
Status in compiz source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in compiz-plugins-main source package in Trusty:
  Invalid
Status in compiz source package in Intrepid:
  Fix Released
Status in compiz-plugins-main source package in Intrepid:
  Won't Fix
Status in compiz-fusion-plugins-main package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Users of Nvidia gfx using the proprietary driver may see screen
  corruption during certain operations.

  [Test Case]

  * Install an Nvidia graphics adapter and the proprietary driver.
  * Observe the graphics corrupt.
  * Install the version of Compiz with this fix.
  * Observe corruption is gone.

  [Regression Potential]

  The patch for this was provided by Nvidia.  There could be some corner
  cases users hit that may cause other issues.  That said, enough
  testing has been done to confidently say that the gains provided by
  this fix far outweigh any corner cases.

  -----------------------

  Original Description:

  == Proposed compiz-fusion-plugins-main patch ==
  See comment 234 by Anders Kaseorg and attached compiz-fusion-plugins-main_0.8.2-0ubuntu2.debdiff.

  == Original report ==
  Binary package hint: compiz

  I'm using latest compiz on intrepid.

  Since jockey-gtk does not work on my box (I already filed a bug), I
  manually installed nvidia-glx-177 and added the "driver → nvidia" line
  to xorg.conf.

  Now I seem to be having some screen refresh problems when using
  compiz: parts of the screen are refreshed, but others aren't. That
  means nautilus doesn't show files or folders until I move the cursor
  over them, firefox doesn't show webpages properly until I scroll down,
  and so on.

  Please, tell me if there is any additional info I can provide to find
  out the cause.

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