Comment 67 for bug 1043518

Captures made on Asus V1S laptop with GeForce 8600M GT (512MB VRAM).

Alpha (RC3) is the first of GNOME/KDE Live TCs/RCs to run plymouth charge correctly on this hardware (bug 855557), despite leading to the present defect. Dropping 'rhgb' from the kernel parameters, acts as a workaround as you mentioned (raw tty messaging instead of any animation, then no graphic corruption, KDE loads fine and Desktop Effects are enabled by default).

Safe graphics (vesa) acts as yet another workaround, loading plymouth text animation. All other routes -- except vesa -- lead to extreme slowness (bug 855560) on this hardware, for both GNOME and KDE Live spins. LXDE Live Alpha (RC3) just works as default, without any workaround, running plymouth charge. Is the present defect, only affecting desktop acceleration ?