I have the same problems and do not have the new drivers. a temporary solution would be to use Cairo-Dock instead. I have attached a screenshot of mine. some people like it a lot more then avant and it is considerably more configurable. It does not suffer from the issues with artifacts like awn does and works fine with without the new drivers for nvidia. You can add the repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list with this code:
## cairo-dock deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/ubuntu intrepid cairo-dock ** Attachment added: "Cairo Dock" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19890507/cairodock.png -- artifacts in Intrepid + nvidia binary drivers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273326 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs