[kde-linux] kmail and kdewallet

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 07 January 2009 22:53:56 Jethro Tull wrote:
> > 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...
>
It will, of course, depend on your particular card.  I suggest that people 
with the random freezes should try it.  It has been a miraculous recover for 
me, but it won't work for every card.  If it doesn't work for them it's easy 
enough to stop using it.  I've added the additional information to userbase 
(reference as above).

Anne
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