From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0F341381F3 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 23:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB35FE09AA; Wed, 29 May 2013 23:08:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f43.google.com (mail-yh0-f43.google.com [209.85.213.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 54372E0856 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 23:08:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f43.google.com with SMTP id a41so1443852yho.2 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 16:08:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=mCWKe5nUFeaIsK7VpmJd6bK363UDVJl9/mYVBdMOhWQ=; b=NdP3gm69sQNuvvYDp5jpY2tVNwkQ7KXkrRPKMkD5DGnLXreBeYOn12Cv1+Z8RrK9nF 1TjKLdE7Plq5e1A551QyQFXdOXpTCt4QOrjWSRedeYcBmiHr6zE8bAx7+L5oKHcWSrgZ yTftEpb2jsdr3aiOEzhglEeVlNUlQLKv9Dnl/ODUOwiEG68mGeO5EXdZQCgVKJlmd1s8 O1J/m6/waNzI+zgStqNEC8YdyzqRdd8vyo96KLsTzqxATZqTzdBHqgLOcV4pi1VeMGd7 BP0Q6H7PHQkE3hjZ2TUtTQfAIKu3bYkwsG3yYK3FNqA9Jpuzuohenr4tqjwMA5F5iB2t 51yQ== X-Received: by 10.236.118.113 with SMTP id k77mr2016055yhh.147.1369868888347; Wed, 29 May 2013 16:08:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-95-244.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.95.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id c31sm55413686yhn.6.2013.05.29.16.08.06 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 29 May 2013 16:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51A68A56.7000300@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 18:08:06 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 SeaMonkey/2.17.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem References: <51A1D201.8040008@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f0a232d7-4a49-4bae-9784-578d3fc626f8 X-Archives-Hash: 85988e4cc3504b77cb9c8653ec5a1ecf Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Dale wrote: >> The problem. After I am logged into KDE for a good while, like several >> hours to maybe a day or so, the kicker thingy at the bottom locks up >> tight. I can't switch desktops, clock stops working, can't click the K >> menu thingy either. Everything in the kicker thingy is dead as a door >> nail. I can switch desktops with the keyboard and everything else works >> in KDE just fine. I can also switch to a console too. Killing X and >> restarting it fixes it, xdm restart in my case. I don't have to reload >> drivers or restart the system. I do go back and downgrade the drivers >> after testing it. > I recently started having trouble where KDE becomes unresponsive at > login and logout for about 20 seconds or more. In my case it was > because of pulseaudio and KDE not getting along together for some > reason. The facts are a bit more nuanced but the work-around that > makes everything normal for me again was to edit > /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop and add a line which says: > NotShowIn=KDE > > Maybe unrelated to your problem but I thought I would mention it just in case. > > I don't use pulseaudio but thanks for the post tho. If I did, could have helped. :-) Also, I still have two posts I have not replied to because it hasn't locked up yet. I haven't been able to test the things yet. If it locks up again, will reply with the results. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!