I remember seeing similar bugs closed recently. It should not do like that on Feisty, you could try (Herd5 or a daily livecd) and reopen if you still get display corruption.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-i810 (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- Display corruption from fresh install https://launchpad.net/bugs/39453 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs