Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 6 September 2024 11:41:03 BST Michael wrote: > You could have inadvertently cleaned this package from your > /var/lib/portage/ world, or unmerged it for some reason. No, nothing like that. The sources and config files were all present, but the extra_firmware entries had been deleted.

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-06 Thread Michael
On Friday 6 September 2024 10:45:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 6 September 2024 10:10:47 BST Michael wrote: > > On Friday 6 September 2024 01:33:04 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Friday 6 September 2024 00:21:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > I think I know what it is: the kernel'

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 6 September 2024 10:10:47 BST Michael wrote: > On Friday 6 September 2024 01:33:04 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 6 September 2024 00:21:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I think I know what it is: the kernel's list of firmware blobs is empty. > > > I > > > don't know where they

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-06 Thread Michael
On Friday 6 September 2024 01:33:04 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 6 September 2024 00:21:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I think I know what it is: the kernel's list of firmware blobs is empty. I > > don't know where they all went, but it shouldn't be too hard to find them. > > Indeed it

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 6 September 2024 00:21:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > I think I know what it is: the kernel's list of firmware blobs is empty. I > don't know where they all went, but it shouldn't be too hard to find them. Indeed it was so. Now fixed and working fine. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 5 September 2024 22:29:14 BST Michael wrote: > At a simple level you can check this file for any obvious problem: > > ~/.local/share/sddm/wayland-session.log > > Your symptom could be related to software rendering used by the kwin > compositor, as opposed to OpenGL. Mesa with approp

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 12:00 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday 5 September 2024 15:43:00 BST Iwrote: > > On Thursday 5 September 2024 13:47:29 BST I wrote: > > > ... Perhaps I should start recompiling things... > > > > After an emerge -e1 kwayland plasma-workspace and a reboot, kwin_wayland

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-05 Thread Michael
On Thursday 5 September 2024 20:00:12 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 5 September 2024 15:43:00 BST Iwrote: > > On Thursday 5 September 2024 13:47:29 BST I wrote: > > > ... Perhaps I should start recompiling things... > > > > After an emerge -e1 kwayland plasma-workspace and a reboot, kwin

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 5 September 2024 15:43:00 BST Iwrote: > On Thursday 5 September 2024 13:47:29 BST I wrote: > > ... Perhaps I should start recompiling things... > > After an emerge -e1 kwayland plasma-workspace and a reboot, kwin_wayland is > down to 20-60% CPU and plasma_shell is barely visible in /to

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-05 Thread Michael
On Thursday 5 September 2024 16:08:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 5 September 2024 07:32:21 BST I wrote: > > Has anyone else seen grossly excessive CPU load since adopting the new > > Wayland way of doing things? /Top/ is showing 1300% going on kwin_wayland > > and the whole of the rest

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 5 September 2024 07:32:21 BST I wrote: > Has anyone else seen grossly excessive CPU load since adopting the new > Wayland way of doing things? /Top/ is showing 1300% going on kwin_wayland > and the whole of the rest going on plasmashell. Another thing: the plasma system is not preserv

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 5 September 2024 13:47:29 BST I wrote: > ... Perhaps I should start recompiling things... After an emerge -e1 kwayland plasma-workspace and a reboot, kwin_wayland is down to 20-60% CPU and plasma_shell is barely visible in /top/. Much improved, but it still isn't right. -- Regards

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 5 September 2024 08:50:39 BST Michael wrote: > On Thursday 5 September 2024 07:32:21 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Has anyone else seen grossly excessive CPU load since adopting the new > > Wayland way of doing things? /Top/ is showing 1300% going on kwin_wayland > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

2024-09-05 Thread Michael
On Thursday 5 September 2024 07:32:21 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > Has anyone else seen grossly excessive CPU load since adopting the new > Wayland way of doing things? /Top/ is showing 1300% going on kwin_wayland > and the whole of the rest going on plasmashell. Ouch! No, this is