nVidia drivers - an observation (admission)
by Ed Greshko
Around F19 or F20 my old nVidia card died. I replaced it with a GeForce GTX 660 but did not bother (think) to update the nVidia driver so I've been running the 304xx drivers along with my GeForce GTX 660 card just fine with KDE as my desktop.
Of course, F22 came along which brought Plasma-5 to KDE. I started to have problems that I attributed to Plasma-5. After some time artifacts would appear in systray and popup areas of the systray when the mouse hovered over a process. Also at least once a day I'd lose everything on the systray and have to restart plasma.
This past Saturday I decided to move to the 340xx drivers, yes I know I really should have moved to 352 now, since that is what my faulty memory told me to do.
Anyway, the artifacts haven't reappeared and the systray hasn't needed restarting in the past 2 days. Additionally another problem seems to no longer exist. Previously when I closed the chrome browser several chrome process would be left running. With the "new" drivers this is not the case.
I don't think I am the only person that has decided to use nVidia drivers instead of nouveau. But my experience may be something to keep in mind when chasing Plasma-5 problems.
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8 years, 7 months
more multiscreen wierdness
by Neal Becker
At work I have laptop + external (hdmi) screen.
Yesterday I went home, woke laptop from sleep, and had no panel. Previously
panel always went with 'primary' display, which was laptop with no external
monitor, and external when connected. Which worked fine.
I tried logoff/logon, then reboot. Didn't fix it.
So I re-added panel, carefully setup as I wanted.
Today I connected external monitor. Now each display has it's own panel.
Seems like a regression.
8 years, 7 months
DPMS settings being changed
by Ed Greshko
In the System Settings I have "Screen Locking" unchecked.
But in my .bashrc I have the line
xset +dpms dpms 240 240 240
And sure enough after 4 minutes the screens go blank. And when I move the mouse the screen returns. However, after the screens return I do an "xset q" and I find
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 600 Suspend: 900 Off: 1200
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
I can't figure out what is changing the settings. Any idea?
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8 years, 7 months
Dolphin using huge amounts of memory
by Lester M Petrie
I have been using Krusader because I have been unable to get Dolphin to access
some directories that are NFS mounted, while Krusader quite happily traverses
them. But this morning I decided to try Dolphin again, as I like some of its
interface better. I would be accessing files from Dolphin, when it would just
disappear. This happened a couple of times, and I was ready to give up, but
decided to look at the journal to see if there was anything there giving a
clue as to what was wrong. I found the kernel was killing Dolphin with an OOM
event. Dolphin was using ~16Gig of memory both times it was killed. What
could it possibly be doing that takes that much memory? Is there some
configuration that can reduce the memory required?
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RNSD/ORNL
865-574-5259
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8 years, 7 months
Desktop freeze on NFS share failure
by Emmett Culley
Why does the desktop freeze whenever an NFS share fails? I have set all NFS mounts to soft,intr and yet, if I forget to unmount a share before taking down the NFS server, my desktop freezes.
Luckily I have Yakauke running, so I can at least get to a console. But of course the NFS mount cannot be umounted if it doesn't respond.
Also I assumed the setting shares to intr, soft would prevent other software from hanging if the share stops responding. Is that not so? Or is there another setting I am not aware of?
Any ideas how to prevent this from happening?
Emmett
8 years, 7 months
Enable/disable touchpad
by Timothy Murphy
I'm running Fedora-22/KDE on my ThinkPad T510.
Ctrl-Y turns off the touchpad on this laptop.
But this only works until the next re-boot.
In System Settings=>Hardware=>Input Devices=>Touchpad
there is an option "Enable/Disable Touchpad"
which I assume is meant to toggle the touchpad on and off.
On my machine it seems to have no effect.
Have I misunderstood its purpose?
Or does one have to install some other package for it to work?
As I recall, there was a straightforward option "Disable touchpad"
in Fedora-21/KDE, which worked perfectly.
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gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
8 years, 7 months
konsole5 "fixed" upstream
by Ed Greshko
Looks as if the cut/paste issue with konsole5 has been fixed upstream.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343726
Hope this can make it into F22 soon for testing. While there are workarounds it was frustrating.
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8 years, 7 months
RE: konsole5 "fixed" upstream
by Rex Dieter
Ah, I think it's Qt. This build was against qt-5.5, not available in -updates (or updates-testing) yet. I'll sort it out and refresh the build later today
-------- Original message --------
From: Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com>
Date: 08/16/2015 7:30 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: konsole5 "fixed" upstream
On 08/16/15 19:03, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Not broken for me. Please retest, verifying that all currently running
> konsole sessions are closed first.
>
> If problems continue, please try (as root):
> 1. run: ldconfig
> 2. rpm -q konsole5-part konsole5
[root@meimei Downloads]# dnf install ./konsole5-*
Fedora 22 - x86_64 - Updates 530 kB/s | 15 MB 00:28
Last metadata expiration check performed 0:00:19 ago on Sun Aug 16 20:26:42 2015.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Upgrading:
konsole5 x86_64 15.04.3-2.fc22 @commandline 134 k
konsole5-part x86_64 15.04.3-2.fc22 @commandline 473 k
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Upgrade 2 Packages
Total size: 607 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Upgrading : konsole5-part-15.04.3-2.fc22.x86_64 1/4
Upgrading : konsole5-15.04.3-2.fc22.x86_64 2/4
Cleanup : konsole5-15.04.3-1.fc22.x86_64 3/4
Cleanup : konsole5-part-15.04.3-1.fc22.x86_64 4/4
Verifying : konsole5-part-15.04.3-2.fc22.x86_64 1/4
Verifying : konsole5-15.04.3-2.fc22.x86_64 2/4
Verifying : konsole5-15.04.3-1.fc22.x86_64 3/4
Verifying : konsole5-part-15.04.3-1.fc22.x86_64 4/4
Upgraded:
konsole5.x86_64 15.04.3-2.fc22 konsole5-part.x86_64 15.04.3-2.fc22
Complete!
[root@meimei Downloads]# konsole
konsole: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libkonsoleprivate.so.15: undefined symbol: _ZNK18QAbstractListModel7siblingEiiRK11QModelIndex
[root@meimei Downloads]# ldconfig
[root@meimei Downloads]# konsole
konsole: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libkonsoleprivate.so.15: undefined symbol: _ZNK18QAbstractListModel7siblingEiiRK11QModelIndex
[root@meimei Downloads]# rpm -q konsole5-part konsole5
konsole5-part-15.04.3-2.fc22.x86_64
konsole5-15.04.3-2.fc22.x86_64
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