KDE 4.6.0 Has Arrived

[Awesomeness]

I thought radeon was developed by the community?

If you are really that clueless, you should better leave Phoronix for good.

[BlackStar]

They are both caused by Xorg-compatible drivers developed by some big corporation?

I thought radeon was developed by the community?

Common thread is that it is the same people that are always having the problems.

Yeah yeah, how about suggesting potential workarounds instead? My desktop crashes but I can still invoke commands, open windows or even use 3d.

Any ideas? Can I switch to R600g without recompiling stuff? I don't wish to move to fglrx on this system.

[devius]

Doesn't it tell you to install the debuginfo packages for KDE from your distro?

Yes it does, but on Arch it seems they aren't separated from the standard packages. I'm not exactly sure what that means, but I bet you have to compile the program you want to debug with a debug parameter activated or something like that.

[RealNC]

Funnily enough, KDE tries to collect information for a bug report but then fails whining that "not enough information is available". That's, ugh, helpful.

Doesn't it tell you to install the debuginfo packages for KDE from your distro?

[Awesomeness]

Look, I don't really know who is at fault here. The problem appeared as soon as I upgraded from 4.5.x to 4.6.0, so that's my primary lead. Someone warned about crashes on Nvidia 260.xx and newer; I did the same about R600c.

What's the common thread between these crashes?

They are both caused by Xorg-compatible drivers developed by some big corporation?
NVidia 260.x doesn't crash only Plasma 4.6. It also happens on 4.4.x as soon as NVidia 260.x is installed. As stated in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251719#c1 the drivers causes a malfunction in glibc, so any software accessing that can potentially misbehave.

[deanjo]

Look, I don't really know who is at fault here. The problem appeared as soon as I upgraded from 4.5.x to 4.6.0, so that's my primary lead. Someone warned about crashes on Nvidia 260.xx and newer; I did the same about R600c.

I am unable to reproduce the crash here with Nvidia 260.xx and newer drivers.

What's the common thread between these crashes?

Common thread is that it is the same people that are always having the problems.

[BlackStar]

Indeed, looks like Blackstar is pointing fingers at the wrong group again.

Look, I don't really know who is at fault here. The problem appeared as soon as I upgraded from 4.5.x to 4.6.0, so that's my primary lead. Someone warned about crashes on Nvidia 260.xx and newer; I did the same about R600c.

What's the common thread between these crashes?

Funnily enough, KDE tries to collect information for a bug report but then fails whining that "not enough information is available". That's, ugh, helpful.

[deanjo]

Also works just fine here with r600g (mesa from trunk) on Gentoo

Indeed, looks like Blackstar is pointing fingers at the wrong group again.

[Tsiolkovsky]

Works OK with r600g here.

Also works just fine here with r600g (mesa from trunk) on Gentoo

[RealNC]

Oh great, I upgraded my Arch installation and now Plasma crashes as soon as I open any maximized window. R600c here.

Way to go, KDE!

Works OK with r600g here.