On Saturday, February 11, 2012 04:14:24 PM Philip Muskovac wrote: > On IRC we had a discussion about buggy graphics drivers [1], which > include an issue with the nvidia blob [2] and the open source ati driver > [3]. > > A workaround for those is telling KDM to not reset the current X session > but telling it to actually restart X by setting > TerminateServer=true > in kdmrc. > > <yofel> ossi: so the only difference between that being off and on is > that logout is slower? (And you don't notice driver bugs) > <ossi> yofel: basically, yes > > On my eeePC I don't notice any slowdown, and on my thinkpad shutting > down plasma takes longer than restarting X. So do we want to eventually > use that for precise if it results in a less-buggy-by-default release? > And if yes, when should we enable that? Now, to get more regression > testing, or later to have a longer testing phase for the drivers? > > Philip > > [1] http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/02/11/%23kubuntu-devel.html#t13:19 > [2] http://pad.lv/930614 > [3] http://pad.lv/651294
If you're talking to ossi about changes in our defaults, I think we should also make the changes in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/641712 - it's a bad bug and I don't know how else to fix it. I've been running with the 'work around' in place for several releases with no trouble from it. Scott K -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
