https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356225
--- Comment #295 from Simone Gaiarin <simg...@gmail.com> --- Have you tried to test with a live USB like neon? just to be sure that the problem is not related to config files. On Fri, Feb 2, 2018, 09:12 Michael Butash <bugzilla_nore...@kde.org> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356225 > > --- Comment #294 from Michael Butash <mich...@butash.net> --- > @ghost53947, I'm using arch, and running latest -Syu as of that posting > 1/21, > which was with plasma 5.11.5-1 on arch. It's every bit as broken as 5.8 I > upgraded from, and others prior still broken the same way. With arch > through > early 5.x plasma I've cleared my .config kde settings, but this is just > still > inherently broken somehow despite any userland intervention I've found. > > My video hardware is a dell precision 7910, nvidia 1070GTX, 3x Club3d > DisplayPort 1.2 adapters to HDMI 2.0, nvidia 3.87.34-5, and 3x Samsung > JU6700 > displays. > > Occasionally KDE freaks out and throws a monitor to 620x480 when powering > off > and back on, it can't seem to read edid's, but some compatible visa mode, > which > is lovely. The display settings can't change it, so something hardware or > drive seems to glitch in doing so. > > Usually rebooting is the only fix I can find then, and tried various dp to > hdmi > adapters even if something there. First comes kde usually glitching, > flickering, particularly with anything gl based, and otherwise just > continues > to unwind itself over days to months until I reboot, upgrade, or some > combination to reset the clock. > > I can sometimes stave it off disabling compositing under kde, but either > way it > degrades obviously over time like a bad leak, and every hard power-off of > display degrades it significantly. I don't expect this is fully software, > partially hardware, but either way it doesn't handle the displays coming > and > going in any way gracefully. Compositing is the devil I find. > > I like KDE. I want to use KDE. I appreciate this is normally a beautiful > environment to replace windoze. It really annoys me that somehow, this > same > series of issues around multi-monitor have persisted almost as long as I > have > used linux as a full-time desktop/laptop os (circa 2006) across everything > I > do. Usually ubuntu, sometimes others like mint, lately arch, but in every > respect, kde is still the same weird, broken beast with graphics and > multi-monitor systems the same way. > > I'm really hoping my describing these things help those writing the > important > bits to the OS in recognizing problems we see in every day use. So many > years > later, you can say I'm a bit soured. Then I try windows or mac, and hate > them > so much more, and deal with linux with whatever DE regardless. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You are on the CC list for the bug. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
