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Happy news: |
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Upgrading to KDE-4.6.0 fixed all the annoying issues below. |
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Apparently, though unproven, at 00:54 on Wednesday 26 January 2011, Alan |
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McKinnon did opine thusly: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I'm not completely happy with my driver setup for an 8600M GT. |
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> Using nvidia.ko, KDE with desktop effects enabled (especially translucent |
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> popup thumbnails on the task bar, and blur effect on) makes my notebook fan |
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> run all the time and kwin uses 20% cpu according to top. Oddly enough, the |
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> fan runs faster with the screensaver on (displaying a single static jpeg) |
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> and settles down when I unlock the screen. |
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> Nouveau is supposed to be useable (if not entirely stable yet) but it makes |
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> the fan run flat out, notebook gets hot very quickly, top reckons kwin is |
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> using 30% cpu even with all fancy effects off and gui events have a |
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> noticeable lag to them - a short but very noticeable delay after mouse |
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> clicks for example. It all looks very much like some process is blocking |
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> as when things get around to happening, they happen quickly - like |
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> glxgears spins it's wheels at a terrific rate and very little gets in it's |
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> way once it starts. |
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> I reckon it should not be this way and I have yet again done something |
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> stupid. I've scoured the net and forums for howtos but found nothing and |
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> this has been going on for at least 5 kernel versions. |
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> Are there any known issues that cause things like this that I've |
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> overlooked? I strongly suspect it's not an obscure detail peculiar to me, |
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> more like I absolutely need kernel feature X for best results. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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