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On Friday 22 Jul 2011 20:20:47 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: |
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> On Friday 22 July 2011 18:41:26 Sebastian Beßler wrote: |
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> > Am 22.07.2011 16:57, schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> > > It may look like KDE is the likely culprit based on just the |
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> > > information you provide, but I would be more inclined to look at |
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> > > browser plugins first, concentrating on those with both Firefox and |
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> > > Chromium versions from the same developer team. |
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> > I have zero browser plugins installed. So that is not the culprit. And |
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> > why should plugins lock up X when used under KDE but not under XFCE? |
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> Maybe because you did not enable compositing in xfce4, but use it with |
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> kde4? |
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Well, this is partly correct, although I do not use compositing in KDE - |
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because it will crash X. |
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> > The problem that X freezes with KDE4 is more likely with webbrowsers but |
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> > happend when using other programms too. But because of the fact that one |
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> > or more browsers are nearly always running it is hard to find a freeze |
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> > without a browser running. |
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> > > There could be a cornercase bug in KDE that only shows up on your |
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> > > specific combination, or maybe there is some edge KDE app you use that |
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> > > disagrees with violently with FF. Or maybe it's the video driver that |
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> > > doesn't actually do what it tells KDE it can do (remember the |
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> > > painfully slow nVidia drivers with early KDE4?) |
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> > I use the opensource drivers for ati-cards. So t is unlikely to be |
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> > driver related. |
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I also use open source drivers and these troubles started recently. I am |
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running: |
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x11-base/xorg-server-1.10.2 |
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x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4-r1 |
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x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.10 |
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media-libs/mesa-7.10.3 |
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> Well, have a look at http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu- |
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> bugs@××××××××××××.com/msg1483058.html for an example how the open source |
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> atidrivers can hang X with firefox. Note that compositing was enabled here |
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> (compiz). And here's another one: |
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436632 |
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Thanks for these links. This machine has an ATI Radeon X600 (RV380) 3E50 |
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(PCIE). I have noticed that when I hover over the K menu, or when I select |
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Log out/Shut down, I lose the wallpaper and the whole screen is filled with |
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horizontal tearing/artifacts. This is what makes me thing that this is an |
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xorg breakage rather than FF or KDE. |
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KDE is of course heavier than XFCE or Fluxbox in graphic terms and this may be |
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pushing things over the edge. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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