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From: Thomas Yao <t.yao426@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Extraordinarily laggy UI, keyboard, udev weirdness, KDE 4.5
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:05:43
Message-Id: AANLkTinDeGz=C_n3k2BwH9LqyKtwLBV-s+uWpZ9OG6fz@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Extraordinarily laggy UI, keyboard, udev weirdness, KDE 4.5 by Paul Hartman
1 On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Paul Hartman <
2 paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com <paul.hartman%2Bgentoo@×××××.com>> wrote:
3
4 > Hi, I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.35.1 and my KDE to 4.5. After
5 > rebooting, I have some weird, possibly unrelated issues:
6 >
7 > During bootup, boot process hangs on "waiting for uevents" for ~30
8 > seconds or so. I don't remember this ever happening before. As far as
9 > I can tell everything still works fine, it just delays the boot
10 > process a lot.
11 >
12 > In X the UI responsiveness randomly goes bad, keyboard especially. At
13 > first it'll be fine, then simply using Konsole and typing will begin
14 > to slow down. Also, screen output in general seems to freeze until I
15 > touch the mouse or keyboard. Even something like listing a directory.
16 > It's really weird... It gets so bad that it becomes completely
17 > unresponsive, freezing for minutes at a tie. It eventually un-freezes
18 > momentarily, long enough to logout and back in at least. I disabled
19 > desktop effects but it still had the same problem. I tried Gnome
20 > briefly last night before going to sleep and didn't experience this
21 > slowdown problem.
22 >
23 > Anyone else had those same problems or know what I might try? I'm
24 > using nvidia-drivers and tried 3 different versions with no success. I
25 > have not yet tried downgrading my kernel or KDE installation, but
26 > that's next on the list of things to try tonight.
27 >
28 >
29 I have no problem with my kernel upgraded today earlier and I didn't have my
30 KDE upgraded cuz so far I found 4.5 is a buggy version.
31 Maybe you should downgrade to 4.4.5 and wait for a stable version of 4.5.x.