This happened to me too, on my old laptop, a Dell Latitude D820 with an NVidia Quadro NVS120M video card, but as far as I can remember, it happened to me after disabling compiz too, so it's likely an NVidia bug, so the ubuntu bug list might not be the best place to report it... unfortunately
-- [Jaunty,Karmic] screen flickers black randomly with nvidia 185driver and compiz enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/471224 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