Re: Lots of problems with update

On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Colin J Thomson wrote:
> 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.

Reported.  But after deleting lots of unused feeds, crash is gone.

>
> > > > 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.
>

Yes, turning off vsync is a BIG help here!  I had tried a bunch of other 
suggestions already, but this one made the diff.


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