Scsijon, I have finally managed the problem by installing an unofficial build of the driver "xorg-x11-driver-video-intel" from the repository "home:scalpel4k". It seems that this repository contains the latest driver build from git, and there is no such problem with this driver. I believe the driver included into the official distribution is buggy and should be updated. As well as I know I am not the only person who experience such problems (see Bug 738398 on the Bugzilla, which was opened on 2011-12-23(!) as Major(!) and has not yet even been assigned!!!). Best, Michael On 11.04.2012 07:39, scsijon wrote:

On 08/04/12 04:10, Michael Lashkevich wrote:

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Dear All,

I have encoundered a despairing fault, which appeared after upgrade to OpenSUSE 12.1 (from 11.4). After every hibernation/resume many icons on the panels and in applications, and some other GUI elements become black or transparent (invisible). I need to restart programs and kicker (I normally use KDE3, but the corruption in XFCE as well, but not in icons in other graphic elements) to get rid of it.

My computer loads "i915" module and chooses xorg "intel" driver. I tried to use the noKMS mode ("i915.modeset=0"), but the "intellegacy" driver, which is compatible with noKMS, always crashes on some applications (like firefox and thunderbird). I tried many device options, but to no avail (except for "Shading" "on", but this option spoils video players and some GL applications). Upgrade to "X11:/Xorg" packets produce no effect. Recently, I installed an older "xorg-x11-driver-video-intel" from "home:aevseev" repository. It helped for the first several hibernations, but then the problem returned.

I have been using (Open)SUSE since 9.3, but have never faced such a problem. Can anybody help me?

Michael Michael, I still monitor my old linux, which is how i picked your problem up.

We on puppy linux also have this appearing every so often, in all cases it came down to either 1/ a shortage of video card memory, or the driver build or revision didn't match the kernel; or 2/ trying to use too high a matrix icon on the desktop.

Try it next time with just few icons on the desktop, if it still appears as black, check which size the icon is, you may just need to create a smaller one and put it into the appropriate icons or pixmaps size directory to fix.

If like me you use the inbuilt vga, try cranking the video up in the bios to maximum and see how you go, it may be easier.

regards scsijon

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