Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1646 mails)

[michael norman <michaeltnorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 09 August 2010 09:06:35 C wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 09:47, Frans de Boer wrote:
> > > My solution for the nVidia/11.3 sluggishness problem was to bump up to
> > > the 2.6.35 kernel.  Someone else has had success with booting with
> > > vmalloc=192M.  I haven't tried the vmalloc boot parameter, but moving
> > > to 2.6.35 made a HUGE difference in my KDE4 performance.
> > >
> > > You can get the 2.6.35 kernel from this repository:
> > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_11.3/
> > >
> > > C.
> >
> > This sounds like the problem the kernel developers had before with the
> > 2.6.34-git8 and up. That's why they removed the git versions for 2.6.34,
> > incorporated it in the 2.6.35 RC1 version and corrected the problem
> > there. I have problems with 2.6.34-12 too with or without nvidia drivers
> > in that the system is always unresponsive when switching desktops..
> > There are more problems with 11.3 so I have gone back to the 11.2
> > version awaiting the 11.4 version to correct all the quirks.
>
> Just curious... why revert to 11.2 instead of simply using the 2.6.35
> kernel in 11.3?  Overall, once I "fixed" the kernel/Xorg issue and
> sorted the nVidia binary driver fight with Nouveau, 11.3 has been a
> nice upgrade over 11.2.  I'm not facing any other significant issues,
> and it's generally better than 11.2.  To be honest, if you wait on the
> next release to fix all the issues in the current release, you're
> going to be waiting a long time.  Each release has had its quirks,
> oddities, and miscellaneous warts.
>
> I'm running 11.3 with KDE4.4.95 from Factory, kernel 2.6.35 from
> kernel head, and it's nice... very nice.  Fast boot, video works
> well.. it's quite a nice release.  I'm able to use it for my work on a
> daily basis (ie actually be productive with my job) and do leisure
> things like gaming (Wine 1.3 is working VERY well these days).
>
> KDE4.4.95 is working very well (two minor bugs I've bumbled on so
> far... one in dbus which caused problems with Dolphin... fixed by
> installing latest dbus.... and one in the KUpdateApplet... still not
> fixed).
>
> C.
Could you tell me which repo to add to get KDE 4.4.95 please ?

Thanks

Mike
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