Another problem I had using the nvidia driver are redraw errors (repeated lines of junk below the cursor which disappeared by minimizing-maximizing the window). But for this a solution is to add
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "disable" EndSection to xorg.conf as it is described at http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2006/Nov/msg00574.html -- Mathematica 5.2 display very slow https://launchpad.net/bugs/68404 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs