Restarting once again, the weird colours and vertical shifting has come back, and stayed that way with subsequent reboots. I have deleted xorg.conf, using a basic graphics driver (vesa?) and I'll run nvidia- uninstall to clean up the driver. I am still affected.
-- Using NVIDIA drivers in Lucid causes display shift and flicker, or extreme slowness with compiz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521596 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