Comment 20 for bug 747717

g9ahwkcm:

I tried what you did, it solved the windows (mostly) from coming up white, but now the background, terminal and more windows past two appear to come up white.

here's my stuff, spelled out:

Lenovo 3000 J series, AMD 64x2 running 32 bit

$ lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100] [10de:0242] (rev a2)

here's what i've tried so far:
wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/275.21/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-275.21.run
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.38-10-generic-pae
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-275.21.run -n -s --x-prefix=/usr/lib/xorg/ --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`

thinking about going down to 10.04, wonder if that will be any different. worked ok (after some tweaking, not that i can remember what) in 8.04.