Posted by Martin Hegedus on Jan 14, 2012; 4:11am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Ubuntu-11-10-64bit-and-AWT-vs-NEWT-tp3654908p3658319.html

For a bit of closure, I installed 3.3.0 NVIDIA 290.0 and still get the same black flash.  I also ran glxinfo to confirm and it does return 3.3.0 NVIDIA 290.10 as the version string.  Oh well.