I installed the drivers (apt-get nvidia-glx, nvidia-xconfig). 3d acceleration works, but text in firefox 1.5.0.1 (also sometimes in other applications like nautilus, but mainly here) often looks like this:
http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=namenlos6ay.jpg
(the menu bar looks ok)
by selecting the text with the mouse, it looks as it should again ... It seems to affect only Arial normal (not Arial Bold or Italic)?
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Everything is up to date.
Does firefox work fine if you go back to your old xorg.conf?
Yes.
(I was redirected to this forum in that thread: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=139264&page=6)
also posted here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=828871
xorg.conf, Xorg.0.log: attachment in the nvnews thread.
sudo nvidia-