Re: Lots of problems with update

Colin J Thomson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kde.redhat.user
Organization http://www.g6avk.demon.co.uk/
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 18:57:04 Neal Becker wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Neal Becker wrote:
> > > Hate to say it, but pretty bad experience here with kde4.1 update.

> > > 2. akregator.  Crashes all the time.  Unusable.
>
> Crashes when fetching feeds.  See attached:

You would need to install the debug packages for a better backtrace...

It does not help you, but Akregator works a treat here from within Kontact or 
on its own.

> > > 4. Had to turn off desktop effects, otherwise kwin was using 100% cpu.
> > > Was pretty bad under 4.0.5 - but I had hoped it would be better, not
> > > worse!
> >
> > odd, never seen that.  What graphics hw/driver are you using?
>
> This is f'ing nvidia, with the closed driver and  well-known 2d performance
> problems.  8600M.  But it was better with 4.0.5.

Its a known problem with NV, newer cards are even worse. 
Have you tried turning off Vsync? there has been many a discussion on the Dev 
lists about this with possible temporary solutions.

I have an older NV FX5700 card here it is just about bearable to use.

Cheers

Colin
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Fedora 9 (Sulphur)
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