[olug] Heart attack after 11.04 upgrade

[Dave Pfister]

Fwiw, after the natty dist-upgrade, I switched to KDE... and I hate KDE...  I found they introduced so many freaking Gnome bugs with 11.04, even using so-called classic mode, it was unusable.  HUGE Memory bloat in X (nv-current also).  Rendering issues on switching workspaces.  Breaking focus-follows-mouse was the death blow for me.  May roll hack to 10.whatever at some point.  Or switching distros entirely.

On Jun 29, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:12, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
> 
>> I was quite disappointed to find that X is still segfaulting occasionally
>> even after the upgrade.  It usually (but not always) happens when I'm
>> not doing anything on the console -- just a blank screensaver while
>> I'm away.  Gonna have to track that one down.  This also happened before
>> the upgrade, so don't let it scare your friend.
> 
> 
> I've been getting some odd X11 behavior too.  I can't say if it's strictly
> due to Ubuntu, the NVidia graphics drivers, or with a heating problem with
> my cards...  I too run the "Classic" mode - the Unity desktop didn't like
> working with my triple-screen / two card system and I don't need the eye
> candy chewing up CPU+GPU resources.
> 
> My biggest annoyance is that X11 ramps up to 100% CPU (on one core).  The
> mouse moves find, but the screen stops updating (Xterm cursors stop
> blinking, clock stops updating, etc), and Ctrl-Alt-F1/F2/F3 don't bring up
> an alternative text console.  I can ssh in
> and try killing X11 but I usually just to a reboot.
> 
> What drivers are you using?  I'm using nvidia-current
> @ 270.41.19-0ubuntu1~xup~natty (per "dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia")
> 
> Dan
> 
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