Re: Lots of problems with update
Colin J Thomson <[email protected]>
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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 -- Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Registered Linux user number #342953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/