Comment 3 for bug 219587

I agree with asac, we should keep the patch for hardy, just because it's too late.
I'm concerned by the 2nd part of the message in http://cairographics.org/news/cairo-1.5.18/

   "(Meanwhile, there appears to be a separate bug where some X
    servers or specific X-server drivers will use random pixmap data
    when asked to draw a repeating surface. The buggy_repeat
    workaround would also avoid those problems, but we have not yet
    characterized whether the new "version < 1.4" is a good
    characterization of those problems or not.)"

I think ATI (fglrx) is one of those. I will test locally (as I used to have that issue).