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Ray Rashif | 1 Sep 2010 02:58
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Re: kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

On 1 September 2010 04:48, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know if the workarounds are still needed or if that was a
> fixed bug? I read the changelog but was unable to discern whether or
> not these were on the list of fixed kwin bugs.

Still needed; has not been confirmed to be fixed:

"Fix regression which caused desktop effects not working with some
drivers. Fixes bug 243991. See SVN commit 1167908." [1]

"very likely. there's a massive amount of "similar" problem reports (freezes -
press shift+alt+f12 - or fragmented screes depending on the resolution, latter
one just like this on your particular GPU, see the other two dupes and bug
#241402, while it's not clear that latter one is really related)" [2]

"I just did a commit, but I do not know if it fixed it. I have to properly
investigate the issue but currently I am lacking the time. If I get a patch
before the release I will send a notice to the release team." [3]

[1] http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_5_0to4_5_1.php
[2] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243991
[3] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241402

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Denis A. Altoé Falqueto | 1 Sep 2010 03:09
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Re: kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 September 2010 04:48, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone know if the workarounds are still needed or if that was a
>> fixed bug? I read the changelog but was unable to discern whether or
>> not these were on the list of fixed kwin bugs.
>
> Still needed; has not been confirmed to be fixed:

I'm on an intel GM965 and it works fine in 4.5.1. The compositing is
enabled after login and the velocity is bearable, although moving
windows is slower than with 4.5.0. I have blur effect on.

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Martín Cigorraga | 1 Sep 2010 03:41
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Re: kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

Try this Denis:

[msx <at> paradise ~]$ cat /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=plasma-desktop --graphicssystem raster

Also you can add --graphicssystem raster to all KDE apps to boost
performance, specially Yakuake if you use it.
This hack should work with KWin composite feature enabled.

-Martín

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Isaac Dupree | 1 Sep 2010 03:59

Re: HAL .fdi files stopped working

On 08/31/10 17:31, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> I wonder why we write news announcements about these things. People
> don't seem to read them and ask anyway, so why bother writing the news?

How about because I read and therefore ask less, and same for several 
other people?  And am informed ahead-of-time what is likely to break -- 
an irreplaceable service.  Also the news means that when people *do* 
ask, you can answer with a one-line link to the news instead of 
explaining it again.  Seems like a most efficient system.  (Not that 
questions about things that were recently in the news are a good thing!)

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Denis A. Altoé Falqueto | 1 Sep 2010 04:22
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Re: kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Martín Cigorraga
<martosurf7600 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Try this Denis:
>
> [msx <at> paradise ~]$ cat /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop
> [Desktop Entry]
> Exec=plasma-desktop --graphicssystem raster
>
> Also you can add --graphicssystem raster to all KDE apps to boost
> performance, specially Yakuake if you use it.
> This hack should work with KWin composite feature enabled.

Well, composite didn't work with raster graphics system. But the old
one is fine. I'll continue looking for other options too. Thanks for
the hint!

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Denis A. Altoé Falqueto | 1 Sep 2010 04:42
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Re: kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto
<denisfalqueto <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Martín Cigorraga
> <martosurf7600 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> Try this Denis:
>>
>> [msx <at> paradise ~]$ cat /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop
>> [Desktop Entry]
>> Exec=plasma-desktop --graphicssystem raster
>>
>> Also you can add --graphicssystem raster to all KDE apps to boost
>> performance, specially Yakuake if you use it.
>> This hack should work with KWin composite feature enabled.
>
> Well, composite didn't work with raster graphics system. But the old
> one is fine. I'll continue looking for other options too. Thanks for
> the hint!

In fact, the vsync option was re-enabled. After I turned it off, the
performance was restored to the levels of 4.5.0. I think It could be
better, but it is fine now.

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Rafael Beraldo | 1 Sep 2010 06:25
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Hard disc clicks

Recently I got preoccupied with the hard disc clicking sounds I have been
hearing since I installed Arch Linux on my Asus 1201N.

Anyway, I remembered that there was an issue that could dramatically reduce
the life of the hard disc, then I looked up on Google and found this article
[1]. I ran smartctl -A and noticed that each time I heard a click, one was
added to Load_Cycle_Count. Then I ran hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda, but the Arch
Wiki [2] says that it is best to set a smaller value, like 128, if you move
your laptop a lot.

The thing is, 128 keeps the hard disc spinning down a lot. In fact, 254 is
quite noiseless, but as from 253 the clicking sound returns. I read this bug
page [3] but found nothing new. It is worth remembering that, sometimes,
when I'm watching a movie or TV show with mplayer, it stops for less than I
second, then I hear the disc spinning faster and the video continues.

So, how did you guys set the power manager with hdparm in your laptops? Does
anybody else have this problem? Since I move my netbook often, should I set
it to 128 even if it spins down more than four times a minute?

Than you all.

[1] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking
[2] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop#Hard_drive_spin_down_problem
[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pm-utils/+bug/361680

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Tobias Powalowski | 1 Sep 2010 08:44
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[signoff] mdadm-3.1.4-1

Two fixes related to configs that aren't using udev:
   - Don't remove md devices which 'standard' names on --stop
   - Allow dev_open to work on read-only /dev
And fixed regressions:
   - Allow --incremental to add spares to an array
   - Accept --no-degraded as a deprecated option rather than
            throwing an error
   - Return correct success status when --incrmental assembling
     a container which does not yet have enough devices.
   - Don't link mdadm with pthreads, only mdmon needs it.
   - Fix compiler warning due to bad use of snprintf
   - Fix spare migration

Please signoff both arches
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Martín Cigorraga | 1 Sep 2010 09:32
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Re: kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

I have both composite and raster enabled plasma desktop and apps running
alongside very well here check it out.
After just updating to 4.5.1 VSync was enabled again so I switched off.
Best,

-Martín

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Kurt J. Bosch | 1 Sep 2010 12:41
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Re: [PATCH 21/48] Both rc.single and rc.shutdown use the same code to kill everything.

2010-08-31 13:16, Dave Reisner:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:07:52AM +0200, Kurt J. Bosch wrote:
>> --snip--
>>
>> I suggest:
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>>  From b202be97f8dc1c0c68aaea792d4457c674c673f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Kurt J. Bosch<kjb-temp-2009 <at> alpenjodel.de>
>> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:57:47 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH 17/17] Correct behaviour of kill_everything()
>>
>> ---
>>   functions |   11 +++++------
>>   1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/functions b/functions
>> index b9ba718..3ca7324 100644
>> --- a/functions
>> +++ b/functions
>>  <at>  <at>  -205,10 +205,9  <at>  <at>  ck_status() {
>>   kill_everything() {
>>       # $1 = where we are being called from.
>>       # This is used to determine which hooks to run.
>> -    # Find daemons NOT in the DAEMONS array. Shut these down first
>> -    for daemon in /var/run/daemons/*; do
>> -        [[ -f $daemon ]] || continue
>> -        daemon=${daemon##*/}
>> +    # Find daemons NOT in the DAEMONS array.
>> +    # Shut these down first in reverse order.
>> +    for daemon in $( /bin/ls -t /var/run/daemons ); do
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