Mark Bidewell wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote: >> On Monday 16 November 2009 12:47:43 Mary Ellen Foster wrote: >>> I just installed F12 on a fresh computer, and for the most part things >>> seem to be working well. One thing I'm seeing in KDE, though -- which >>> is new to me -- is that whenever I click on the Start menu (the Fedora >>> logo in the bottom right), my whole desktop freezes for several >>> seconds and then the menu comes up. I can tell it's freezing because, >>> for example, if I have a "yum update" running in a konsole at the same >>> time, its output stops being updated until the menu comes up. >>> >>> Is anyone else seeing this? I'm pretty sure this is new for me since >>> the betas ... >>> >>> MEF >>> >> Hi, >> it's NVidia bug, lot of people complaints about it but we can't do anything as >> it's proprietary driver :-( >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533620 >> >> There are two solution - if you don't rely on 3D - use nouveau driver instead >> closed one. 2D speed is nice, better than closed but no 3D yet. >> If you need 3D and/or closed driver (VPDAU is nice too) try XOrg but without >> xserver-1.7.1-window-pictures.patch. There's scratch build in Koji (see >> comment #13). >> >> Jaroslav >> -- >> Jaroslav ?ezn?k <jreznik at redhat.com> >> Associate Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno >> >> Office: +420 532 294 275 >> Mobile: +420 731 455 332 >> Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> fedora-kde mailing list >> fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde >> New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > > Another mitigation is to use the traditional rather than the Kickoff > menu. I am seeing this with nouveau as well, but I installed from the > nvidia installer, and I believe it may have borked by X. Will try > again with F12 final. Be warned, there are other bad side-effects to the current nvidia drivers than just the pausing of kickoff. We've received reports of other mysterious pauses, failures as well. See also, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#NVIDIA-xorg-broken -- Rex
