Chris H Posted October 17, 2008 Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 2009, KDE4. My laptop has always had instances where X freezes, ever since switching from kernel 2.4. This shows itself in the graphical system being unresponsive for a second or two, maybe happening every couple of minutes. Since upgrading from 2008/kde3.10 I have noticed this occurring but also sending any audio and video into a 'judder' as well. Also playing a dvd for the first time it was unwatchable as this interruption became more frequent, like every 6 or 7 seconds. Opening a terminal and using top it appears that when I'm playing audio or a dvd then X uses about 60% cpu and plasma uses about 30% :o Having no extra processes with the system 'at rest' then x uses about 3% ( what I'd expect ) with plasma flipping from below 1% to about 15%. There would seem to be an errata regarding this here but looking through the xorg.0.log file I don't see what would appear to be the tell-tale evidence to suggest this is the issue. I'm not able to tinker with the linux-nonfb boot until later tonight but was wondering if anyone had some insight into this before I go fiddling? Ta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 17, 2008 Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 What are the specs on this machine? CPU, Vid Card, RAM, sound card, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted October 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 AMD 64-bit 3400+ or roundabouts. ATI Mobility 9700 128Mb 1Gb RAM 80Gb HD It's more than capable of playing videos and all that stuff. Worked fine on Mandriva 2008, KDE 3.5, just gone a bit squiffy on 2009/KDE4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted October 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 Have installed Gnome and videos and all that play fine. Methinks something amiss with KDE4 rather than 2009. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 17, 2008 Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 Did you have KDE's desktop effects enabled, or Compiz turned on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted October 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 Some desktop effects. No Compiz though. It always hangs my system on any install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted October 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 Thought I'd have another go at this! Turned off all desktop effects and killed the pic frame plasmoid ( only one I had working ) and videos now play fine and X doesn't seem to go over 30% cpu. Thanks AdamW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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