try google : kde 4 eat cpu it's really helpful ——— Ashkan R On Aug 11, 2012 6:36 PM, "Shridhar Daithankar" <ghodechhap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I recently formatted an acer netbook with intel atom processor, 32 bit, > 1.66GHz/1GB RAM, with arch. I installed kde on it, everything went as > expected. > > However when I log in with a normal user, the KDE start-up completes but > the > splash screen is stuck. plasma-desktop process is eating 100% CPU. Killing > and > restarting the process does not help. > > I think the machine is dual core, /proc/cpuinfo shows two cores but might > be > hyper-threaded, am not sure. > > I can hit Alt-F2, get a krunner prompt and run applications like konsole > but > the desktop remain unavailable. > > I had just started dbus from rc.conf and created a user as follows > > # useradd -m -g users -G audio,video shridhar > > And log-in from kdm. > > Google is not much of help. Any suggestions before I report the bug > upstream? > -- > Regards > Shridhar >
