KDE + X + Nvidia problems

[Armelius Cameron]

On Friday, October 07, 2011 05:49:02 pm Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> On 07/10/11 14:30, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> > On Friday, October 07, 2011 04:35:57 AM Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> >> On 06/10/11 22:32, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > I am having some issues with KDE + X + Nvidia right now, not sure
> >> > which
> >> > 1. Kile with simple latex file would be so sluggish, X uses > 90% of
> >> > CPU on "top", with "kile" as the next process on the list.

> >> Yes, we saw this behaviour a while back with a similar setup, F14, +
> >> proprietary nvidia drivers.
> >> One thing that seemed to work around the problems was to change the qt
> >> backend with something like:
> >> kate --graphicssystem=raster
> >> export QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=raster
> 
> I'm glad that worked for you. I'm afraid I don't know what the real
> problem is though. I don't know what fixed it or us...maybe an nvidia
> update. What version of the nvidia driver are you on?

Hi Roderick, 
This is what I get from RPMFusion. Haven't checked if official nvidia has any 
newer driver:

$ rpm -q kmod-nvidia
kmod-nvidia-280.13-2.fc14.1.x86_64

$ uname -a
Linux simeis 2.6.35.14-96.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 1 11:59:56 UTC 2011 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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