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Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Now this is really annoying. I watch small clips mostly, and can live |
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> with that, and when I want to watch stuff with others, I copy the file to |
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> tmpfs, which seems to help a lot. |
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> But now I found another solution: NOT USING KDE. |
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> When X crashed (trying to make the old Unreal game play), I fired up |
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> another window manager, and when I played a video in there, there was no |
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> problem at all. So, I have another workaround. |
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> But does anyone have an idea, why running KDE is the problem? Disabling |
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> desktop effects does not help. |
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> I must be totally crazy because I still want to use KDE, despite the big |
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> trouble it gives me nearly every day. Yes, most things work fine now, but |
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> there are many many little problems, daily application crashes, and every |
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> time I log in I fear that the desktop won't come up. 8G of RAM was not |
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> enough to avoid swapping, so now I have 16G, that's fine, I no longer |
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> care about kwin using 1G of my RAM. Oh, and I no longer use KMail, after |
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> it ate thousands of mails I just wanted to move. No problem, they were |
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> not important, but I no longer trust the KDEPIM suite. And it seems the |
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> developers do not care about this, the bug report got no replies. |
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> But anyway. Any idea why it only happens with KDE? I will ask on the KDE |
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> mailing list, but I thought I post here first, maybe there's something |
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> Gentoo-specific going on here. |
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> Wonko |
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When I first built this rig, I ran into this issue as well. What I did |
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was tell smplayer, in my case, to cache more of the video. I have mine |
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set to cache 6Mbs and it plays fine even on HD videos. |
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This may not help you but if you have not tried it yet, may be worth a |
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shot. It is aggravating when it does this tho. |
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Also, there was a thread a good while back with this issue and their fix |
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was to do a emerge -e world with everything optimized for their CPU and |
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such. May be worth thinking about at least. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |
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