I'm experiencing the same issues on the same hardware (Radeon ML6/7000)
and changing from XAA to EXA indeed solves the screen corruption, and
degrades performance (noticable when dragging windows for example). I
noticed the screen corruption with the system monitor, compiz, and
notifications but al
Occasionally (every few minutes), I see this process ("ipw2200/0") hog
resources for 20 or so seconds. Everything becomes choppy (mouse movement, any
sound that's playing) so this is unfortunately very much noticeable.
It's a fresh 8.10 install, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
This issue started showing
