After living with this problem for a long time and a few hours of playing around I found a fix. I created an xorg.conf file and added one line to the Device section changing to EXA instead of XAA, leaving all defaults the same. Here's the important part:
Section "Device" Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" [...] EndSection Why does this work? For some cards like some models of Mobility Radeon the developers decided to change the default from EXA to XAA for performance reasons. Most other ATI cards default to EXA, but some default to XAA. Even if you think you know what it should default to, double check it. Changing the AccelMethod fixed my problems. -- Notification and similar dialogs are displaying corrupted after update on Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416001 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xserver-xorg-driver-ati. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp