Lots of problems with update

Post by Neal Becker
Hate to say it, but pretty bad experience here with kde4.1 update.
1. kmail. I use dimap. Lost all my mail. Have to resync caches.
Crashed when clicking on 'expire' to set expiration.
Lost all my mail subscriptions.
Lost all my accounts.

wow. Did you upgrade from kdepim3?

Post by Neal Becker
2. akregator. Crashes all the time. Unusable.

worksforme, I use it every day.

Post by Neal Becker
3. amarok. Doesn't play anything (this is the alpha). Reverted to
amarok-1.4.9.1 OK.

worksforme, but it's got a lot of rough edges interface-wise.

Post by Neal Becker
4. Had to turn off desktop effects, otherwise kwin was using 100% cpu. Was
pretty bad under 4.0.5 - but I had hoped it would be better, not worse!

odd, never seen that. What graphics hw/driver are you using?

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Neal Becker

2008-07-29 17:57:04 UTC

wow. Did you upgrade from kdepim3?

Yes.

Post by Neal Becker
2. akregator. Crashes all the time. Unusable.

Crashes when fetching feeds. See attached:

...

Post by Neal Becker
4. Had to turn off desktop effects, otherwise kwin was using 100% cpu.
Was pretty bad under 4.0.5 - but I had hoped it would be better, not
worse!

odd, never seen that. What graphics hw/driver are you using?

This is f'ing nvidia, with the closed driver and well-known 2d performance
problems. 8600M. But it was better with 4.0.5.

Rex Dieter

2008-07-29 18:05:37 UTC

wow. Did you upgrade from kdepim3?

Yes.

Post by Neal Becker
2. akregator. Crashes all the time. Unusable.

I'm sure the kdepim dev's would be greatly interested in hearing this,
bugs.kde.org please.

Post by Neal Becker
4. Had to turn off desktop effects, otherwise kwin was using 100% cpu.
Was pretty bad under 4.0.5 - but I had hoped it would be better, not
worse!

odd, never seen that. What graphics hw/driver are you using?

This is f'ing nvidia, with the closed driver and well-known 2d performance
problems. 8600M. But it was better with 4.0.5.

Sorry man, try tweaks on:
http://techbase.kde.org/User:Lemma/GPU-Performance
?

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Colin J Thomson

2008-07-29 18:09:01 UTC

Post by Neal Becker
Hate to say it, but pretty bad experience here with kde4.1 update.
2. akregator. Crashes all the time. Unusable.

You would need to install the debug packages for a better backtrace...

It does not help you, but Akregator works a treat here from within Kontact or
on its own.

Post by Neal Becker
4. Had to turn off desktop effects, otherwise kwin was using 100% cpu.
Was pretty bad under 4.0.5 - but I had hoped it would be better, not
worse!

odd, never seen that. What graphics hw/driver are you using?

This is f'ing nvidia, with the closed driver and well-known 2d performance
problems. 8600M. But it was better with 4.0.5.

Its a known problem with NV, newer cards are even worse.
Have you tried turning off Vsync? there has been many a discussion on the Dev
lists about this with possible temporary solutions.

I have an older NV FX5700 card here it is just about bearable to use.

Cheers

Colin
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Fedora 9 (Sulphur)
Registered Linux user number #342953

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Neal Becker

2008-07-29 18:59:34 UTC

Post by Colin J Thomson

Post by Neal Becker
Hate to say it, but pretty bad experience here with kde4.1 update.
2. akregator. Crashes all the time. Unusable.

You would need to install the debug packages for a better backtrace...
It does not help you, but Akregator works a treat here from within Kontact
or on its own.

Reported. But after deleting lots of unused feeds, crash is gone.

Post by Colin J Thomson

Post by Neal Becker
4. Had to turn off desktop effects, otherwise kwin was using 100%
cpu. Was pretty bad under 4.0.5 - but I had hoped it would be better,
not worse!

odd, never seen that. What graphics hw/driver are you using?

This is f'ing nvidia, with the closed driver and well-known 2d
performance problems. 8600M. But it was better with 4.0.5.

Its a known problem with NV, newer cards are even worse.
Have you tried turning off Vsync? there has been many a discussion on the
Dev lists about this with possible temporary solutions.

Yes, turning off vsync is a BIG help here! I had tried a bunch of other
suggestions already, but this one made the diff.

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Allen Winter

2008-07-29 19:05:03 UTC