I have exactly the same problem as it appears on chrisi's screenshot above, but with an ATI 7500 GPU (R100) on a Compaq Pressario 2800.
$ lspci|grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] $ uname -r 2.6.28-13-generic Changing font hinting to monochrome, delays the corruption. -- Fonts corrupted on Thinkpad X30 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368877 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