Update Disables Desktop Effects

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/04/14 08:49, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Sun, 04 May 2014 06:19:42 +0800
> Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> On 05/04/14 05:30, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>>> Err. With the priority nvidia drivers supplied by rpmfusion,
>>> desktop effects work just fine with the new kernel. At least on 2
>>> of 3 machines were the upgrade has been performed. I will be
>>> updating the 3rd machine sometime tomorrow (probably).
>> I also run the nVidia drivers from rpmfusion and confirm that the
>> effects are running just fine.  :-)
> I don't think this is related to graphics drivers. As I said, I have the
> same reproducible problem on one machine with nVidia drivers (from
> rpmfusion), and on another machine with Intel graphics.
>
> There is *something* on these machines which interacts badly with the
> latest kernel, and crashes kwin's desktop effects as a consequence. On
> the other hand, that same piece of software interacts ok with the older
> kernel, and everything works.
>
> I am not saying that the kernel is the culprit, but it is obviously
> somehow related to the problem at hand. If it works for you, we probably
> need to dig deeper...
>
> Best, :-)
>
OK....  In your previous message you indicated different, what I took to be, graphics HW.  You hadn't explicitly stated you used  the nVidia drivers.

Dig, dig, dig....  :-)

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