https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39897
--- Comment #18 from Alex Deucher agd5f@yahoo.com 2011-09-25 10:42:18 PDT --- Does:
Option "ColorTiling" "false"
in the device section of your xorg.conf help? If so, you may have an old version of the 32 bit 3D driver which doesn't handle tiling properly.
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