https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356225
--- Comment #249 from Michael Butash <mich...@butash.net> --- So again, I take a long weekend to try and make my desktop simply behave as normal, happy thanksgiving. I got fed up with the neon install being broken in more ways than imaginable with this system, so I wiped it, and attempted arch with a whole other set of issues, but the neon install proved far too broken to deal with. This led me to put in my old ssd with my old ubuntu16.04+neon|plasma5.7.4 on here, install the nvidia binaries, and find it was rather broken as well with the same old working kde as I ran for months before on previous hardware. This from a well-working intel cpu + amd gpu install, running with oss ati+mesa driver sets native from ubuntu 16.04 without amd binary abominations. Desktop, gaming, almost everything was good aside from some long-term kwin/plasma compositing decline over a week or so to require a reboot. Once running, I used kde settings with display to adjust ordering, and first power-off of displays crashed all desktop function that monitors showed no connection, but oddly banshee kept playing music without display or perceptible keyboard interactivity. Worst case was finding the old neon boot was broken from boot for boot splash interactivity for luks to unlock my disks. I could only boot recovery and unlock it that way, in which case all keyboards, wired or wireless worked fine. This is a (far too) common bug in ubuntu, over and over, that affects offshoots too that don't catch and/or use it. More work-around, but odd this affects different hardware only, this all worked perfectly on my previous system, an intel i7 haswell with AMD video (using oss drivers) on a z97 gigabyte mobo, now a dell precision t7910 system with xeons and an nvidia 1070gtx with binary drivers on essentially a server mobo. There is very significant differences in kde handling changes of hardware, particularly with gpu, drivers, who owns what, who trumps who, etc that is extremely problematic here I run into time and time again systemically. I had finally hit some stability for a good time, and presumed this resolved when upgrading my system to native neon cd install, but seems amplified in odd, new ways instead. I really don't even know what all to provide that would be useful here, aside from some like-hardware so you can see how freaking odd different setups work between same versions of kde. Considering the displays are always probed the same, I have a hard time blaming xorg or the nvidia drivers. Pretty much from installing neon from october and installing nvidia binary drivers, mine was broken and crashed daily, so fresh off a neon cd or now an existing stable os disk transplant. I can't imagine anyone else doing the same would fare any better here with your distro on mobile laptops or multiple display arrays. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
