Same problems here (on Samsung R40Plus), some additional infos:
dmesg | grep -i radeon [ 3.414242] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [ 3.414339] fb: switching to radeondrmfb from EFI VGA [ 3.415143] radeon 0000:01:05.0: VRAM: 256M 0x0000000070000000 - 0x000000007FFFFFFF (256M used) [ 3.415146] radeon 0000:01:05.0: GTT: 512M 0x0000000080000000 - 0x000000009FFFFFFF [ 3.415274] [drm] radeon: 256M of VRAM memory ready [ 3.415276] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. [ 3.424768] [drm] radeon: 1 quad pipes, 1 z pipes initialized. [ 3.426141] radeon 0000:01:05.0: WB enabled [ 3.426146] radeon 0000:01:05.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000000 and cpu addr 0xffff880035a38000 [ 3.426166] [drm] radeon: irq initialized. [ 3.426387] [drm] radeon: ring at 0x0000000080001000 [ 3.428091] [drm] radeon atom DIG backlight initialized [ 3.428096] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors [ 4.040201] fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device [ 4.040282] radeon 0000:01:05.0: fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device [ 4.040285] radeon 0000:01:05.0: registered panic notifier [ 4.044113] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.39.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0 ------------------------------------------------------------ glxinfo | grep gl server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.4 server glx extensions: client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI client glx version string: 1.4 client glx extensions: GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB, GL_NV_texture_env_combine4, GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_NV_vdpau_interop, Also affects games on other distros like Mint Mate... ------------------------------------------------------------ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434826 Title: Strange artifacts on top of the Unity To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/1434826/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ 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