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I recently installed the latest Ubuntu version 12.10 on my USB stick and booted my laptop with it. The OS runs just fine and as expected but there are a few niggles though! Sometimes when I start a program or open a folder, suddenly the screen gets all garbled for a while. It returns to normal when I take a screenshot of it or whenever I simply refresh the screen.

Would appreciate if someone could tell me why this is happenning on an almost regular basis. If I can get over this issue then I'll surely not mind installing the OS on my computer. I've been a Windows user all my life and now I would love to explore the world of Linux as well.

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You're using the nouveau driver from the output of the lshw command. You should have more luck (and performance) with the closed-source Nvidia driver.

Try to install it using the "Hardware drivers" system application. It should offer you to install this "Additional driver". In my experience the Nouveau driver is "okay", but has many flaws and bugs.

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