diff -Naur xserver-xorg-video-intel-2.4.2.orig/src/i830_dri.c xserver-xorg-video-intel-2.4.2/src/i830_dri.c
--- xserver-xorg-video-intel-2.4.2.orig/src/i830_dri.c	2008-08-26 01:25:53.000000000 +0000
+++ xserver-xorg-video-intel-2.4.2/src/i830_dri.c	2008-11-23 17:00:37.369442981 +0000
@@ -906,6 +906,7 @@
 	       "[drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ %d\n",
 	       pI830DRI->irq);
 
+   sync();
    return TRUE;
 }