Display corruption in KDE on F11 with intel graphics

[Thomas Davis]

On 06/25/2009 07:31 AM, Andreas Petzold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since I've upgraded from F10 to F11, I'm getting corrupted graphics in
> many kde apps. See
>
> http://iktp.tu-dresden.de/~petzold/corrupt.png
>
> for an example. Usually, the desktop background is displayed in
> toolbars instead of the regular toolbar background, but sometimes this
> also happens in other places. If I resize the window or mouse-over the
> affected parts of the window, the problem fixes itself, but it will
> reappear soon. I've only seen this with kde apps and not with others
> like firefox. Since F10 and F11 use the same qt version I suspect the
> intel drivel for my venerable i830 graphics chipset is at fault. Does
> anybody on this list use F11 with kde on a machine with an (old) intel
> chipset with or without the same problems that I'm seeing? I haven't
> had the time to play around with any of the different acceleration
> options of the new intel driver, I'll check that later.
>

I've seen this on the 945 chipset, and I've seen total corruption
of the screen..  This is on a Asus EEEpc 1000he.

thomas