Switching to AccelMethod "EXA" removes the artifacts, but is terribly slow. I've downgraded to Jaunty's xserver-xorg-video-ati and -radeon drivers, and have no problems with the AccelMethod "XAA" now.
lspci -vvv for the graphics card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY Subsystem: IBM Device 0235 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR+ FastB2B+ DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 66 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Region 1: I/O ports at 3000 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb -- KDE kicker, menu and apps titlebar not viewable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434376 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs