Plasma - any hope for my laptop?

[Mustafa Muhammad]

On Oct 6, 2015 1:21 AM, "Timothy Murphy" <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
>
> Glenn Holmer wrote:
>
> >> KDE does not run on my laptop.
>
> > What does it mean "does not run"? Won't start at all, stays on console?
> > Comes up with a black screen? Your machine explodes? That could mean
> > almost anything.
>
> I'm writing this on the laptop that caused all my problems -
> a ThinkPad 61 with nVidia G86M [Quadro NVS 140M] GPU
> now running Fedora-23beta KDE.
>
> I tried 4 ways of upgrading to F23beta
> first Fedup and 2 other upgrades I found: the recommended method in
> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade> and
> <
http://www.unixmen.com/fedora-23-beta-is-out-upgrade-to-fedora-23-from-fedora-22/
>.
> These all bombed out fairly early, IIRC hanging in all cases.
>
> Finally I downloaded Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-23_Beta-1.iso
> and wrote it to a USB stick with liveusb-creator (choosing dd-mode).
> This ran well, and I installed F23beta on a spare partition,
> leaving F22 as a boot option.
>
> The one serious problem with F23beta is that it sometimes freezes,
> refusing to accept any input.
> I have found no way of waking it except pressing the power button
> for 10 seconds and re-starting the system.
>
> A minor fault is that flashes of graphic patterns appear quite often.
> Also there is some distortion of some web-pages,
> making it impossible in some cases to enter required input.
>
> However, on the whole F23beta runs better than F22 on this laptop.
>
>
>
I think Plasma 5 uses OpenGL (hardware accelerated) shell, this is why
display drivers have much more effect on it's stability (compared to KDE4)
For your laptop, if you have hybrid graphics, probably you can disable the
external GPU from the BIOS, this will give you better experience.

Mustafa
>
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> --
> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
> School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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