Hmm, is there a way to take over ownership of a comment? I posted as AC by mistake.

Hi, I've uploaded some of my fascinating Quake Live screenshot collection in this tiny imgur gallery: http://imgur.com/a/yjxRl

So the first problem went away after 1. upgrading kernel and 2. disabling hardware acceleration in Flash.

Now it's only like once a day that I have pink walls in game or everything is upside down, but game restart fixes it.

"Fixes" as in: there still are colorful stains on some walls but no problem, I can play at least, all praise nVidia's driver!

Before you say it's a hardware problem: I've had 3 different GPUs from 2 different manufacturers (all GTX 570) and 2 motherboards (same model, free upgrade to "B3" stepping Intel chipset last year). Shuffling hardware didn't fix anything, but kernel+driver update did a little.

Using VDPAU on certain input (either in MPlayer or enabling accel in Flash) makes whole system unstable, which basically is an exploitable DOS attack against the nvidia module.

If you say ATI/AMD cards have more issues, I really pity their users :(

Actually, if there were no patents, free market would produce a standard by this time. Smaller manufacturers would make their devices compatible with chargers that people already have, from big companies, most probably Nokia.

But in reality, noone is permitted to use the same connector because they'd have lawyers on their back. So the tiny players started to use standard mini-USB, because they aren't in business of selling chargers.

Take patents aside and see the market work. Until then, your mention of market being unable to do things is true. But reacting with regulation is hiding, not resolving the main problem.

What will the Ubuntu version look like when the year 3000 comes? Will it go from 999.10 to 1000.04?