Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #426582
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 426582

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Colin Beckingham (colbec) wrote : Re: (32MB) certain windows drawn garbled when XAA is used

Toshiba Satellite 1110 with small video memory also has this problem.
Tried above suggestions related to xorg.conf and acceleration settings, this results in a system that refuses to boot into Ubuntu and has to be hard reset.
What does work (so far) on this machine is to set System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Visual Effects to "None".
However good luck getting to change the setting in the GUI since it defaults to "Normal" which is marginally usable on this old machine.