Hi,
having installed KDE4 from experimental this weekend I noticed two major
problems:
- some components cause insane amounts of wakeups (about 100++/s) which
result in a power consumtion about 1.5 time the consumption if the latest
kde3 packages from unstable.
- regardless of eye candy
Hi, The slow window drawing problem may be linked to fglrx. Your
chipset is supported by the open source radeon driver (xf86-video-ati). Just
pull in Xorg, mesa, and xf86-video-ati from experimental. Edit the xorg.conf
to make it use radeon as the Driver, and enable EXA. The slow window
Hi,
thanks for the tip regarding the radeon driver, I'll give it a try the next
days.
Regarding the wakeups, I'm quite sure that some of the kde guys simply
forgot how to use the timeout parameter for a select() or poll().
Should be no big deal to figure out ;-).
regards,
Dietz
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