x11/nvidia-{driver, settings, xconfig}: why not the latest available version (290.10)?

[Mark Felder]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:44:04 -0600, Denise H. G. <darcsis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 290.10 has some issues on text redrawing as far I experience. I have
> also been running 290.10 for quite a while. Some apps, especially emacs
> and gnome-terminal will fail redrawing text areas while, e.g. scrolling.
> And x11 cursor cannot sometimes be displayed correctly.

Are we sure this isn't a bug somewhere else? I've been having redrawing  
problems on 285.05.09 and moving to 290.10 is what fixed it for me....