Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1185 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 20 May 2010 17:14:30 C wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 16:16, Anton Aylward wrote:
> > Rainer Klier said the following on 05/20/2010 09:26 AM:
> > > Am Donnerstag, den 20.05.2010, 14:36 +0200 schrieb C:
> > > > Anyone have any tips or ideas on how I can fix this... or start
> > > > digging into what went haywire?
> > >
> > > look at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584919
> >
> > Been there, done that, discussed the matter with various people.
> > Kept fully up to date.
> > All to no avail.
> >
> > While I couldn't produce this 'lock up' on demand, it quite consistently
> > occured with using Firefox: opening a new tab, switching to FF,
> > something.
> >
> > Sorry: none of that about XSYNC made any difference.
> >
> > What **DID** make a difference was crippling KDE4.
> > I went into systemsettings -> general -> desktop -> desktop effects
> > and DISABLED "enable desktop effects"
> >
> > No more animations or effect!
> >
> > But I've not had the problem since.
>
> Well... I seem to have "solved" it on my desktop... the bug info got
> me headed the right direction.  I went to Configure Desktop > Advanced
>
> > Power Management and disabled the PowerDevil option.  Then I
>
> disabled the Dim display option in the Performance profile.
>
> All other settings are left as they were (desktop effects are enabled).
>
> I've been monitoring it now for a couple of hours, and the 100% CPU
> thing is not reoccurring.  This seems to have fixed it, and it's an
> acceptable fix since I don't need/want Dim Display, and PowerDevil...
> for now.

As long as you disable PowerDevil it cannot trigger the X server bug, but that 
doesn't save you from any other apps that use Xsync. 

You can disable PowerDevil in System Settings->Advanced->Service Manager.

If you are affected by the bug please comment/vote on it and we may get an 
online update for 11.2.

Will
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