I just discovered this bug as I acquired a Dell Inspiron 8500 a few
weeks back and ran into the same problem. In fact, on my machine (same
nVidia graphics), the problem even seems worse: Any attempt at using the
nouveau driver so far has not only produced the distortions described by
the original poster, but also ended with a GPU lock-up after a few
minutes maximum. For that reason, I'm now running Xubuntu 12.04 on that
machine, as this distribution still provides the older nvidia-96
proprietary driver - newer distros apparently dropped this version. With
the proprietary driver, the laptop runs fine and actually quite smooth
(considering the age and specs). As it would be nice to be able to run
newer Linux distros on this machine, I'd be happy to help with
experimenting/testing. I could install a newer distro (and hence -
presumably - newer nouveau driver) on a second hard drive or on an
external drive so I can test stuff. Any preferences which distro would
be most helpful for you?

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Title:
  Garbage on X display w/ Dell D800 wuxga & nouveau driver (Nvidia
  GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP rev a1 [NV28])

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