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From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:32:41
Message-Id: 200909101032.27294.Warp_7@gmx.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole by Dudu Loschi
1 Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 schrieb Dudu Loschi:
2
3 > > Hi guys,
4 > >
5 > > until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try
6 > > from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and
7 > > was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire
8 > > X. Mostly it happens when I open Konsole, the next often occasion is
9 > > opening a menu (main menu, context menu, you name it), but also only
10 > > after a Konsole windows was opened. All I see is a quick error message
11 > > about glibc, then X restarts and I'm back at kdm.
12 > >
13 > > I use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60.
14
15 > I've had this issue today with a new KDE 4.3.1 installation (actually
16 > not so new, it was running fine for 4 days). I decided to track down
17 > what was probably causing this issue since it apparently to came from
18 > nowhere.
19 > Well, after testing some configurations I realized that changing fonts
20 > size (specially menu's font) could lead to this problem, but reverting
21 > the size didn't solved.
22 > Them I started changing xorg.conf and found an workaround: disable
23 > BackingStore. I've tested several times and the crash never happened
24 > with BackingStore off.
25
26 A great many thanks to you, I've just tried it and it seems to have the effect
27 you described. I'll dig into it further. But now of course I'm trapped
28 between two worlds - stay with my sceen efficient and faster 3.5, or begin a
29 liason with 4.3 for the benefits it provides, but also with its latent
30 lagginess. *ponder ponder*
31 --
32 Gruß | Greetings | Qapla'
33 Kids in the back seat cause accidents. Accidents in the backseat cause kids.

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