KDE 4.3.5 with compositing periodically freezes the screen for about a second
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KDE 4.3.5 with compositing periodically freezes the screen for about a second
I'm on Gentoo Linux and I use KDE 4.3.5.
I use the proprietary nVidia drivers with my (NV44 based) Geforce 6200LE.
I have the desktop background change every so often so I see all my favourite pictures up there on my screen, but every time it changes, the rest of the screen freezes momentarily. If I am typing something, then it will take a fraction of a second for something to fill the last few letters in and move the cursor across. If I am watching a film (even fullscreen – when the desktop isn't showing!) then the film stops for half a second, and then plays at more than triple the usual speed until it's caught up with itself. But the CPU is not heavily burdened or anything. I reckon it's only to do with the GPU.
I know my graphics card is not that powerful, but I'm choosing to make do instead of replacing it. I don't remember this problem before the time when I upgraded to KDE post 4. Is this being more demanding of my GPU's power?
Don't really know, just put in everything I could come up with. Get strong impression renderacceleration true speeds things up hugely. This might help, http://www.x.org/wiki
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