new kde on f13 is very noisy!

[Manuel Escudero]

2010/11/8 moabi2000 <moabi2000 at gmail.com>

> I have the same problem with KDE with nvidia drivers - it seems worse
> with the latest  ones from rpmfusion, and worse in 4.5 compared to
> 4.4. (Not sure when the change came in, first betas of 4.5 seemed
> fine).
>
> There are a bunch of bug reports already (eg
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234463) - though there seem to be
> multiple issues and a lot of noise in the bug reports. For me, turning
> off the blur effect helps, but not much. On my laptop I have switched
> to gnome for the moment as it gives me approx 50% more battery life in
> normal use (OO Word + calc, kmail, firefox, amarok, R etc) than same
> apps under kde. KDE apps under gnome are a pain though (you have to
> start kmail twice to get akonadi running first, super slow scrolling
> in akregator etc etc).
>
> Nouveau didn't work well for me last time I tried, but will probably
> make the jump to F14 and try again sometime soon.
>
> sorry!
> M.
>
> 2010/11/8 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> > 2010/11/8 Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>
> >>
> >> On 11/08/2010 03:02 AM, Chris Rouch wrote:
> >> > Over the weekend yum pulled in the newest version of kde for f13
> >> > (4.5.2 I think). Since I rebooted and logged in my laptop seems to
> >> > have the fan going most of the time. Gkrellm shows both CPUs are doing
> >> > something, and top confirms that kwin and plasma desktop are each
> >> > using between 10% and 30% CPU. For comparison on my f12 desktop at
> >> > work they use between 2 and 5% cpu.  I don't know what the used before
> >> > the upgrade, but I do know the fan was usually off except when the
> >> > machine was loaded.
> >> >
> >> > This happens with only one window (firefox), and that only having a
> >> > couple of tabs open.
> >> >
> >> > Is this something I can change? If so, where do I need to look?
> >>
> >> Depends on a lot of things.
> >>
> >> What video driver is in use?
> >>
> >> What arch?
> >>
> >> Is flash installed, and any applets running in any of those flash tabs
> >> you mention?
> >>
> >> Are destkop effects enabled?  Which effects?  (blur in particular, is
> >> known to cause degraded performance/load with many driver combinations).
> >>
> >> -- Rex
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> >
> > 1.- Reset your KDE Settings by deleting the ".kde" folder of your home
> > folder
> > 2.- Disable all desktop effects
> > 3.- Get Chrome or another browser
> > 4.- Customize your KDE as you like
> >
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@moabi2000: Try out to reset your KDE settings as I mentioned before, then
turn off the desktop effects
and see if KDE's behavior get's better. About the Opensource Graphics
drivers a lot of people say that they
work great in F14!! Make the switch if you want.

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