Debian Bullseye, KDE hangs - where to look for errors?

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@ex-Gooserider

What seems to have solved it is in the “Performance” section of Settings, there is a checked box for “Use recommended performance settings”… Unchecking the box brings up a second checked box for “Use hardware acceleration when available” Unchecking that box seems to have solved the problem…

I would have thought that an I7 CPU (even an old one) would support hardware acceleration, but apparently not… Doesn’t seem to be a big deal, as I seem to be more bottleknecked by connection speed than anything else…

Thats great. I shall try it in my firefox. I really do like firefox, I would like it to work without disruption. Keep the waterfox option up your sleeve.

I think the hardware acceleration they are referring to might be in the GPU rather than the CPU. Or pehaps even the NIC.

Cheers
Neville

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@nevj

. I shall try it in my firefox

Tried it in Void/Xfce/Firefox.
Yes it seems to work… no hangups in about 3 hours of work.

[ex-Gooserider (Arthur Torrey)]

I agree, seems to be a workable solution - no problems here w/ freezing here since either… (other issues, some of which I’ve solved but that’s a separate story…)

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