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 1OjmRD-0000fd-TC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:04:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAA23E081E for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:04:14 +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 0B841E08FF for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:33:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf28 with SMTP id 28so2666622wyf.40 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:33:54 -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; bh=0WUzNXoGCO8w5TzvxurWpO3FfpfedMhgM//2n+Ok5m0=; b=bvwnaPf9ZfHl1blN1wxnf2f5eznjTJl8rGxye8EB4U5Ov8DIofRAEhYdajd88ezT69 F9e7xGCf7eizGPiMKnCaKJx6aB+0YIQO9hmAQoBCVLVY5M66el6cLXUOjr8IS05hxUe3 qkT2fI5lTmpWEf+g2WwYBmY8ZuYyhCL9rCOl4= 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; b=oCqY9mgKIv7uMCQGGK6kkoW1Ah7lpxZdnmFwyEyzgYsJQQS/R0f/P+4JbheGxvmsKU fp7iv8ewAMlnmYUydoq3apci6NEuzCEUyJarmVoTtJRB9C/HbENVT3b/QAzriYLT95oP LLr08q2YnNShUmprrUS9nRaz11OGP2J/ySOyM= 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 10.227.136.194 with SMTP id s2mr899910wbt.173.1281674034367; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:33:54 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.227.83.213 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:33:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:33:54 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: n33sgi1NclvuYay47J4tf-PuT2Q 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 X-Archives-Salt: c44b1b85-0d4f-41cf-b92c-7234fa336875 X-Archives-Hash: 105ebb470b71db725ba484fa313cd5e2 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? > > Also, I had a somewhat similar problem with GUI slowness. It was a matter > of disabling the "Use VSync" checkbox in System Settings->Desktop > Effects->Advanced tab and enabling the "Disable functionality checks" box in > the same tab. Note 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: > > CheckIsSafe=false > > 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. I'm using nvidia-drivers, and didn't try the -9999 version of those last few packages but otherwise tried the rest of your suggestion. Tried also upgrading to qt-4.7.0_beta2 but still having the freezing problems. It happens even without desktop effects enabled, just plain 2D mode. So it seems something is just not right... will keep experimenting.