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 1OjbEr-0004AU-RS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:06:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD4BEE0AF2 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:06:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3CA2E0907 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF2D1B412C for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:44:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.925 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.925 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.326, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cntZQMrm1P8J for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:44:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC1C1B4112 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:44:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjatS-000200-Ky for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:44:38 +0200 Received: from athedsl-371379.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.2.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:44:38 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-371379.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:44:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Extraordinarily laggy UI, keyboard, udev weirdness, KDE 4.5 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:44:36 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-371379.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 6ad9f887-738c-4348-8bf0-1e8eb11a1ba4 X-Archives-Hash: e0d5cc0e174ce9eb4e4d1e3d38714c6d 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.