Belief is that this bug was caused by the power saving code which has been disabled in the older releases for most cards as it causes these sorts of flickering. Please file a new bug if this persists in Lucid or later.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- Kernel mode switching causes frequent screen flickering with intel video card (not present with the same packages and kernel 2.6.30) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/402982 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs