I have updated my 12.04 HTPC to 14.04 (new install; same hardware), and have started getting awful screen tearing where I had none before.
/proc/cpuinfo
AMD A4-3300 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
lspci
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
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lsmod
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nvidia 10675249 71
drm 302631 2 nvidia
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Everything is from the official repos.
xbmc_12.3+dfsg1-3ubuntu1_all.deb
nvidia-331_331.38-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb