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Subject:    Re: [opensuse] This guy _really_ likes kde 4.5
From:       Hans de Faber <hans.defaber () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-09-16 15:40:30
Message-ID: 4C923A6E.70406 () gmail ! com
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I recognize the whole story.
I had it to.
But I have a different system (AMD) but maybe its the same reason.

I the bios I disabled the C1E support, and from that moment my system
runs as it should.

Succes, Hans

On 16/09/10 15:43, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Thursday September 16 2010, Bob Williams wrote:
>> On Thursday 16 Sep 2010 04:57:15 Rajko M. wrote:
>>> ...
>>
>> Would this also explain why my mouse pointer gets stuck every 30 secs
>> or so? My keyboard buffer is also sluggish, and intermittently loses
>> characters. IOW I'm typing away (I'm not a fast typer, so I'm not
>> filling up the buffer quickly) when the screen stops displaying the
>> characters I've typed. After a few seconds, it catches up, but may
>> have forgotten some of the characters, so I have to keep going back
>> and correcting my work. This can be especially frustrating when it
>> happens while I'm entering a masked password on a website, for
>> example.
> 
> Does everything with a connection to the screen pause? In my experience, 
> things that you can tell are running but don't interact with the screen 
> continue (audio plays, e.g.) but everything else pauses. Even mouse 
> tracking freezes during these pauses.
> 
> I run GKrellM and a CPU spike that is bout 70% kernel mode is recorded 
> for the duration of these pauses, though it appears there only after 
> the pause is over, since as I said, all graphics updating pauses.
> 
> I have this symptom usually only when 3D apps are running, but it can 
> occur at other times. Some digging on the Web turned up a kernel 
> command line (boot-time) parameter that virtually eliminated the 
> symptom outside of 3D apps:
> 
> 	vmalloc=192M
> 
> 
> However, it's still too common when running 3D apps, and I find it 
> _extremely_ annoying and disruptive and would dearly love to figure out 
> what's going on and how to fix it. It is definitely not periodic and 
> the pauses are of varying durations, from less than a second to a few 
> seconds.
> 
> This symptom appeared for me as soon as I replaced the open-source 
> nVidia driver with the proprietary one and was unaffected by the KDE 
> 4.5.1 upgrade.
> 
> 
>> My system details are in my sig, below.
>>
>> Bob
>> ...
>> openSUSE 11.3, Kernel 2.6.34.12-desktop, KDE 4.5.1
>> Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT
> 
> My configuration is similar. Dual core, not quad, 4 GB not 8, nVidia 
> 8600GT, not 9600GT.
> 
> You don't say whether you're running 32-bit or 64. I'm running 32-bit.
> 
> 
> Randall Schulz
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