Update nvidia 180 in jaunty to 185
I'm experiencing a bug in Jaunty with the nvidia 180 drivers where using Compiz seems to cause screen corruption and even X server hang under a wide range of circumstances (eg. attempting to use Chromium, attempting to change the Gnome printing preferences). The situation has now degenerated to the point where I have had to disable compiz to have any sort of system stability. I suspect that it is related to the following changelog entry in upstream nvidia:
-Fixed a bug that causes corruption or GPU errors when an application
paints a redirected window whose background is set to ParentRelative on
X.Org servers older than 1.5. This was typically triggered by running
Kopete while using Compiz or Beryl.
Updating nvidia in Jaunty to 185 would very likely fix this and whole host of other problems, but the process for requesting a "backport" (or whatever the exact terminology is) is obscure at best and obstructive at worst (the same could be said of determining the correct terminology for what the actual process is called and how to achieve it). Or maybe it's just me.
So:
Will the nvidia 185 drivers ever appear in Jaunty? How do I request this? Where should I look for steps on how to do this that a non-guru can follow?
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