Comment 27 for bug 278471

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MoonRise (moonrise7) wrote : Re: Screen flickers with KDE4

I posted this on this Bug Reports as my original bug report was tagged as duplicate and move to this one, but this bug report here sounds like my issue. The Link --> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/275152

My original post:
I can verify this with my ACER 3618 laptop with 2GB RAM and the Intel GMA915. I have tested on other machines that have the GMA3100 display card and it does not occur with those, at least not that can be seen by the eye. Running Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10 up to date as of 2008-10-09 8:00am EDT. The flickering occurs between 7 and 12 seconds, does it very periodic. Why it does not affect the GMA3100 when it is using the same driver, I'm not sure, but it could have to do how it is connecting to the GMA915 vs GMA3100. I've read of a lot of this problem on the Ubuntu and Kubuntu sites. I've tried Ubuntu and it does not do this, ONLY Kubuntu.