From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:10:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3311358.aeNJFYEL58@rogueboard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2747710.mvXUDI8C0e@cube>
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On Friday 6 September 2024 01:33:04 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 6 September 2024 00:21:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Indeed it was so. Now fixed and working fine.
Without all requisite firmware for your graphics the Kwin compositor will fall
back to software rendering. As you've experienced without hardware
acceleration Kwin will eat up CPU cycles.
Emerging sys-kernel/linux-firmware and configuring your system to use it fixes
the problem by providing the necessary code for the graphics card to do the
heavy lifting:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-06 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-05 6:32 [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load Peter Humphrey
2024-09-05 7:50 ` Michael
2024-09-05 12:47 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-05 14:43 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-05 19:00 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-05 21:29 ` Michael
2024-09-05 23:21 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-06 0:33 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-06 9:10 ` Michael [this message]
2024-09-06 9:45 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-06 10:41 ` Michael
2024-09-06 11:30 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-05 22:14 ` Mark Knecht
2024-09-05 15:08 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-09-05 16:27 ` Michael
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