[SOLVED] KDE Effects Cause Lockup or Corruption After Running OGL App

juanbobo · 09-07-2011, 12:28 PM

Most of the time after I run an OpenGL game in KDE and KDE effects are enabled I get either artifacts all over the screen or linux locks up entirely. The obvious solution is to turn off the effects, but I'm wondering if this is a configuration issue or known bug. Any help would be appreciated.

jdkaye · 09-08-2011, 07:35 AM

Hi Juan,
Can you tell us what version of KDE you're using and what games in particular create this effect.
ciao,
jdk

juanbobo · 09-08-2011, 08:33 AM

I'm running KDE 4.6.5 and I've had this issue after exiting WINE games, and other games such as foobillard, I suppose anything opengl related.

jdkaye · 09-08-2011, 10:13 AM

Ah. It's wine related. I don't use wine so I am of no help to you. Sorry.
jdk

juanbobo · 09-08-2011, 12:23 PM

It's not directly related to wine, wine just happens to use opengl as well.

eSelix · 09-08-2011, 12:57 PM

Do you have checked option in "System Settings"/"Desktop Effects" on the tab "Advanced" checkbox "Suspend desktop effects for fullscreen windows"?

juanbobo · 09-08-2011, 04:49 PM

Yes, I do have that checked.

jdkaye · 09-08-2011, 11:41 PM

Do openGL screensavers (Cage, GL Planet, etc.) also cause the problem?
jdk

juanbobo · 09-09-2011, 11:42 AM

I don't use screen savers, but virtually everything I've tested using opengl causes this problem.

jdkaye · 09-09-2011, 11:22 PM

Are there any error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? When you run one of those OpenGL applications from the command line, to any error messages appear?
ciao,
jdk

juanbobo · 09-18-2011, 12:41 PM

For what it's worth I upgraded from the 270 nvidia kernel to the 275 and the problem seems to be solved

jdkaye · 09-18-2011, 11:57 PM

That's good!

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ciao,
jdk

juanbobo · 09-19-2011, 04:50 AM

Thanks to everyone who contributed