visual artifacts in parts of the screen

[Philip Taylor]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion

In karmic running lxde, i get various visual artifacts all over the screen, mainly the top and the bottom of the screen.
Down near and ontop of lxde panel, so you cant see nm-applet anymore nor the clock nor ubuntu-one's icon.
and at the top of the screen,

the graphics type and make is.

 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Motion, Inc. SM712 LynxEM+ (rev a0)

Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi scraliontis,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` and `dmesg`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you're using a custom /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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