[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1

[Mike Barnard]

2010/10/20 Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl at ringofsaturn.com>

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> I am open to any ideas on this topic as well.  From what I can basically
> tell, I am having some sort of CPU leak with XORG.  I can restart X (no need
> to reboot) and my KDE becomes responsive again.  But XORG starts at around
> 3% cpu and just keeps creaping up until it will sit over 60%.  It is
> currently 27% from a restart last night.
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> I don't have kmix open.  Disabling desktop effects doesn't appear to have
> an effect.  Chrome vs firefox has no effect.  Removing flash and replacing
> with gnash had no effect either.
>
> Thanks!
> Rusty Nejdl
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> To reply to myself...
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> I found a bunch of discussions of this affecting other distros besides
> FreeBSD.  I was able to solve this by doing a combination of the following:
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> 1) Stop using Oxygen windows decoration
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aha... I'll change from this and see.... though I love how oxygen decos look
like :-)

2) Disable blur affecf
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disabled by default on mine.


> 3) Update /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier     "Screen0"
>     Device         "Device0"
>     Monitor        "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth    24
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>     *Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"*
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>     SubSection     "Display"
>         Depth       24
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
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> *Section "Extensions"*
> *    Option "Composite" "Enable"*
> *EndSection*
>
> Ok... will try this too.



-- 
Mike

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