I'm having the same problems in gnome-terminal and gvim on Ubuntu 11.10. Gvim just randomly fails to redraw parts of its window, particularly down in the : command area when I hit Tab to complete filenames or buffer names.
In gnome-terminal, if the line I'm typing wraps onto a second line, it typically doesn't render properly until I hit Enter a couple of times. This is more likely to happen when I've got more than a screen's worth of text and the cursor is at the bottom of the window. I updated the NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver from "version current" to "version current-updates", but it didn't help. I removed the NVIDIA drivers, but it didn't help either. I have two laptops running Ubuntu 11.10 which have no such problems. $ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [Quadro NVS 290] (rev a1) $ sudo lshw -C video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: G86 [Quadro NVS 290] vendor: nVidia Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 resources: irq:16 memory:ee000000-eeffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:ec000000-edffffff ioport:dc80(size=128) memory:efe00000-efe1ffff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/888666 Title: terminal doesn't refresh properly with nvidia-current drivers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/888666/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs