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Re: only bug fixes for plasma ?
by NabLa on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @15:15

Well, your mileage may vary... I've been using KDE4 nonstop since 4.0.1 (4.0.0 was too unstable for me). Apart from the obvious defects, 4.0.2 is quite stable. My biggest annoyances are krunner (after executing successfully a command it complains it couldn't do it) and kwin (way too slow in composite mode).

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Re: only bug fixes for plasma ?
by NabLa on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @15:19

I see on 4.0.3's changelog that some effort has been made to optimise kwin on nvidia, let's see how it goes :)

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Re: only bug fixes for plasma ?
by Jonathan Thomas on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @16:23

Seems smoother here on my GeForce 4 MX 440. (It wasn't half bad before either)

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Re: only bug fixes for plasma ?
by MarcG on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @01:49

Not smooth at all on my Geforce 6600GT. Drives me nuts, have to use compiz.

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Re: only bug fixes for plasma ?
by reihal on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @09:11

Since the MX 440 is much older, slower and have less memory,
it's another driver you have to use.

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Re: only bug fixes for plasma ?
by NabLa on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @09:45

Still slow for me, no improvement :? I have a similar card with latest nvidia drivers...

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NVIDIA fixes?
by Sebastian on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @04:11

I read your post and decided to install 4.0.3

Surprising result when measuring frame rate on 8400GT using glxgears:

kde 4.0.2: 8300 frames in 5.0 seconds
kde 4.0.3: 4617 frames in 5.0 seconds

half the performance.

I have to file a bug report on that...

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Re: NVIDIA fixes?
by Sebastian on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @08:50

No, even less. The first reduction appeared after installing 4.0.3, killing kwin4.0.2 and starting kwin 4.0.3.

After restarting the session I am at 1500 frames per 5.0 seconds...

wow! this is as fast as my old ATI wothout 3d support! May somebody explain this? Shall I see this as a sign (I will exeggerate) that kwin is making the gpu busy or is it a good sign (in terms that kwin now uses the gpu at all)?

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Re: only bug fixes for plasma ?
by Aaron Seigo on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @08:42

> krunner (after executing successfully a command it complains it couldn't do it)

for the record, this bug is not in krunner but elsewhere =)

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