On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Paul Hartman < paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com <paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi, I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.35.1 and my KDE to 4.5. After > rebooting, I have some weird, possibly unrelated issues: > > During bootup, boot process hangs on "waiting for uevents" for ~30 > seconds or so. I don't remember this ever happening before. As far as > I can tell everything still works fine, it just delays the boot > process a lot. > > In X the UI responsiveness randomly goes bad, keyboard especially. At > first it'll be fine, then simply using Konsole and typing will begin > to slow down. Also, screen output in general seems to freeze until I > touch the mouse or keyboard. Even something like listing a directory. > It's really weird... It gets so bad that it becomes completely > unresponsive, freezing for minutes at a tie. It eventually un-freezes > momentarily, long enough to logout and back in at least. I disabled > desktop effects but it still had the same problem. I tried Gnome > briefly last night before going to sleep and didn't experience this > slowdown problem. > > Anyone else had those same problems or know what I might try? I'm > using nvidia-drivers and tried 3 different versions with no success. I > have not yet tried downgrading my kernel or KDE installation, but > that's next on the list of things to try tonight. > > I have no problem with my kernel upgraded today earlier and I didn't have my KDE upgraded cuz so far I found 4.5 is a buggy version. Maybe you should downgrade to 4.4.5 and wait for a stable version of 4.5.x.