Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Thursday 5 September 2024 22:29:14 BST Michael wrote:

> At a simple level you can check this file for any obvious problem:
> 
> ~/.local/share/sddm/wayland-session.log
> 
> Your symptom could be related to software rendering used by the kwin
> compositor, as opposed to OpenGL.  Mesa with appropriate USE flags should
> provide what your graphics need.  Have a look in kinfocenter, or run:
> 
> qdbus6 org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation
> 
> and check the section under Compositor, Compositor Type is not showing
> Xrender or software rendering.

I think I know what it is: the kernel's list of firmware blobs is empty. I 
don't know where they all went, but it shouldn't be too hard to find them.

> Beyond this I think you're into compiling stuff with debugging symbols and
> trying to understand where code fails:
> 
> https://community.kde.org/KWin/Debugging

Thanks to those who helped.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.