From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ojc85-0007xe-AI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:03:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B29E1E0BD9 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E79E09E4 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:12:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf28 with SMTP id 28so1991225wyf.40 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:12:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JxQmnSFNEVRuIuPALok4jsTN1R+2DSqoCxSY47s5Qcs=; b=mO8vpfv6gP6wG4xSZjJw8aHxLCv8K91+0Hy4JAhAmBu9yIrhh/AsiXX8YkpkZx5Kwa M5k9qLLU74bEfQVAJFEDTZMubjmWRHk59dqymRoDa4w3/K9p+RqfJ7L/b7Vd7PjFre9r Ghm8fEUfcrST6hL7RXiSt3gFTUnq3n39FpvbM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=QAWi9tyDgfIFx27qvOKxtL8RBs0b3oQdxRIFn5azgrUhhArvVIsiiFyw9iqjUiIazT 5V6IdDVgqg9bOI9u6qUfrU+/8+EOCK7v9Sd8d1BErNeVtzuIICtuUz4sCl4nkMFcsQk+ nR2ODvec0yDINYzqtNruojA04n6+LM+xLumKI= 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 Received: by 10.227.138.2 with SMTP id y2mr418359wbt.18.1281633172310; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.227.83.213 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:12:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:12:52 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: GSQbwXDPd6A66luAKdzJp6Qzpk0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Extraordinarily laggy UI, keyboard, udev weirdness, KDE 4.5 From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: f8b11af5-2da7-487f-a581-2df25a60b01d X-Archives-Hash: afcbeb6ae1a17ac6736158d6729149bb On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote= : > On 08/12/2010 07:24 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> [...] >> In X the UI responsiveness randomly goes bad, keyboard especially. At >> first it'll be fine, then simply using Konsole and typing will begin >> to slow down. Also, screen output in general seems to freeze until I >> touch the mouse or keyboard. Even something like listing a directory. >> It's really weird... It gets so bad that it becomes completely >> unresponsive, freezing for minutes at a tie. It eventually un-freezes >> momentarily, long enough to logout and back in at least. I disabled >> desktop effects but it still had the same problem. I tried Gnome >> briefly last night before going to sleep and didn't experience this >> slowdown problem. >> >> Anyone else had those same problems or know what I might try? I'm >> using nvidia-drivers and tried 3 different versions with no success. I >> have not yet tried downgrading my kernel or KDE installation, but >> that's next on the list of things to try tonight. > > I suppose you're running a complete ~arch system, not just some packages? Yep > Also, I had a somewhat similar problem with GUI slowness. =A0It was a mat= ter > of disabling the "Use VSync" checkbox in System Settings->Desktop > Effects->Advanced tab and enabling the "Disable functionality checks" box= in > the same tab. =A0Note that the desktop and all apps will keep being tear-= free > and VSynced even if making those changes in System Settings. > > Furthermore, I've set: > > =A0CheckIsSafe=3Dfalse > > in my ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc > > After all that, KDE 4.5.0 runs perfectly for me using > gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r1, xorg-server-1.8.99.905, and the following live > (9999) packages: > > media-libs/mesa > x11-proto/glproto > x11-proto/dri2proto > x11-libs/libdrm > x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati > > Using KMS. Thanks for the tips, I'll experiment tonight and see what I can make it do.