Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:01:52 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd7 & kde4 & performance Message-ID: <200810131001.52682.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <48F10B0D.7000400@man.poznan.pl> References: <166708.22574.qm@web56807.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <48F10B0D.7000400@man.poznan.pl>
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On Saturday 11 October 2008 15:22:37 Michal Kulczewski wrote: > I'm running 7.0 stable with ULE scheduler on i386 architecture (since > it's Pentium M). I've tried to use kde4 out of the box (after > compilation). Whole kde is running poorly. I have to wait seconds for > any action to complete (right mouse button, moving windows, moving > widgets, etc), so, as you can imagine, I'm not that patient to tweak any > settings while using kde4. Now I see that many of you are using nvidia > binary drivers, maybe this is the answer why my kde4 is running so slow. > However, beryl is working quite fast for me. kde4 is using only 4% of > processor, hal and dbus are enabled and running. Go into System Settings -> Desktop and try toggling "Enable desktop effects" to see if it makes a difference. Also, go into Advanced Options (same screen) and try changing the "Compositing type" between OpenGL and XRender. I'm also using the "radeon" driver and it's nicely fast on my machine. -- Kirk Strauser
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