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Ubuntu 8.10 NVidia Text Corruption

[The problem I have been having with the 173 drivers has gone away with updated driver in intrepid-proposed. I would suggest that as a option]

Some people using Ubuntu 8.10 with the NVidia drivers have encounter screen corruption issues with certain programs, gnome-terminal & Firefox especially with compiz active. I have seen many suggestions on how to fix this problem, but none have worked for me.

If you want to use compiz, one workaround is turn compiz off and back on. This will fix the text corruption issue till you logout, restart, or suspend your current login session.

I have used fusion-icon to do this easily.
1. Install fusion-icon
sudo apt-get install fusion-icon
2. Goto System --> Preferences --> Sessions and create entry for fusion-icon under Startup Items.
3. compiz will not start at login.
4. Right click on the Fusion Icon in the system tray, Select Window Manager --> Compiz.

If someone has a better solution, please let me know.