[kde-linux] kmail and kdewallet

[Jethro Tull]

> From: cannewilson at googlemail.com
> To: kde-linux at kde.org
> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:42:47 +0000
> Subject: Re: [kde-linux] kmail and kdewallet
> 

> 
> There has been a massive change in my system over the last 24 hours, which 
> might provoke some thought for other systems.  It was suggested that my cpu 
> might be having to bear a heavy load because my radeon X600 video card wasn't 
> sufficiently capable.  Then Nikos Chantziaras told me to try "AccelMethod" 
> "EXA" in my xorg.conf.  This was not really to solve the problem of speed, but 
> to address the random freezes when desktop effects were running.  The 
> difference is immense.  Now, with desktop effects running it is totally 
> stable, as far as I can tell - I haven't had a single freeze since I enabled 
> this yesterday morning - and I haven't seen long delays and runaway cpu usage.
> 
> I've written this up at http://userbase.kde.org/GPU-
> Performance#Desktop_Effects_causes_random_freezes.  I understand that the same 
> EXA method works for some Intel cards that have this problem.  I'll try to get 
> a grip on the additional information I've been given and write it up in the 
> same place later today.
> 
ALA EXA is still not officially stated to be "stable" i'm not using it.
I tried it once, it really was full buggy.
a lot of dirt was appearing on screen: scrambled images...
> Anne

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