Intel i855GM graphics on openSUSE-11.4 Milestone-6 liveCD. Still problems but a substantial improvement over 11.4 milestone-5. With special desktop effects disabled, most the flicker and poor redraws disappear. The Intel i855GM graphics were broken in the 2.6.28 and later kernels. This is the best behaviour I have seen yet in all distributions with this hardware. Work left to do BUT a BIG improvement.
This problem on the i855GM is a mix of graphic driver issue and a kernel issue. It first appeared in the 2.6.28 kernel and it has yet (as of the 2.6.39 kernel) to be fixed.
oldcpu54 9 months ago