According to the upstream bug report, this is confirmed to have been due to hardware degradation.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Invalid
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X displays various artifacts, white lines all over the screen
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391439
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