I am experiencing the same problem. Using an p4p800 motherboard with AGP nvidia card, FX5200. I can use nouveau, but that is far to slow and doesn't give good resolution (24 inch philips diaply 1920 * 1200). On ubuntu 12.04 i used nvidia driver 173 with modified xorg.conf which resutled in good performance at 1920 * 1200. After upgrade to 12.10 the screen shows one color and only the mouse pointer. When moving slowly on the screen i can probe for edges of windows, the resize handle becomes visible. When using that to guess where the exit cross of apps is, i could close the music player. On 12.04 I had some start up applications (thunderbird, rhtyhmbox). They really start, and by guessing where the cross is i could close rhyhm player. Just don't see their windows. The problem is very good reproducable on my machine (some people report that it starts and stops with unknown triggers). The screen shows one color, could be any. At some moments it even changes to some other color. Seems not to be related to user actions. There seems not to be a scheme in the change or colors. I will re-install the nvidia and collect some logs, add them later. Now the system is set to nouveau. This is posted from another disk and 12.04.
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