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Frogmaster
May 18th, 2009, 11:44 PM
I've just built a brand new computer and have decided to use Ubuntu 9.04 until I can save up for a copy of Vista. I really love how it looks and feels (very pretty) but I am having a problem that is probably related to my graphics drivers. Whenever my cursor is touching the top of the screen towards the left or hovering over any menu or menu option, my screen will flicker black for a split second. I have looked around for the past few hours as best as possible for a solution, but have found none that I can make sense of. I'm thinking I might just need to install graphics drivers, but besides the one recommended to me by Ubuntu (180 version), I have not been able to find compatible ones. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I don't want my first impression of Ubuntu to be a bad one, haha.

System Specs:
GPU: GeForce 8400 with 512mb video RAM
RAM: 2gb 1066 speed
CPU: 2.7 ghz dual core AMD processor

Thanks again in advance for any assistance. I'm very new to Linux, so I'll probably catch on in time.