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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox lock me out of my X session and X get 100% cpu usage
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 20:55:36
Message-Id: 200805292155.18125.uwix@iway.na
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Firefox lock me out of my X session and X get 100% cpu usage by Claudinei Matos
1 On Thursday 29 May 2008, Claudinei Matos wrote:
2 > Hi guys,
3 >
4 > I'm having a weird problem here. I do have an amd64 install of
5 > gentoo with KDE 4.
6 > Well my problem is that sometimes (once or more per day) when
7 > using Firefox I do
8 > click in some link or try to scroll down/up the scrollbar my
9 > system freezes.
10 > When this happen I have to remotely login via ssh and do 'kill -9
11 > X' which in this case
12 > is consuming around 100% of cpu usage.
13 >
14 > I've already updated both kde and firefox and even tried to
15 > disable/enable render acceleration on xorg
16 > but nothing seems to help.
17 >
18 > I'm using Xinerama (nvidia + sis video boards) but this is a old
19 > install (around 1 year) and
20 > my problem just started after I've migrated to kde4.
21
22 AFAIK, KDE4 < 4.1 has severe problems with xinerama. Can't confirm
23 this myself because I don't use xinerama but have read about it on
24 KDE mailing lists.
25
26 Uwe
27
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29 Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed!
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