I'm sorry about that. I was *definitely* using the proprietary "nvidia" driver. The "nv" driver works fine on Feisty, "nvidia" is unusable. I guess I changed the xorg.conf entry to "nv" in order to file the bug without having to worry about system crashes, and forgot to edit it before posting here. So, below I have attached a version of the xorg.conf as I used it to get these results. The change from "nv" to "nvidia" is the only difference, however.
** Attachment added: "The X.org configuration file" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6581734/xorg.conf -- In Feisty Fawn, nvidia-glx 1.0.9xxx causes graphical glitches, artifacts and random system crashes https://launchpad.net/bugs/85449 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs