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anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 3:28 pm
by Capoeira
KDE works normaly with normal kernel, and with the linux-rt-lts kernel, too. but when I boot into the linux-rt kernel KDE will partialy crash after loeading (plasma disapears leaving only the background picture, while mouse and keyboard still responsive).
I think it started with the last rt kernel before 5.0. now I have linux-rt 5.0.5.
could be a problem with nvidia driver, too

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 4:08 pm
by merlyn
I've had a problem with this kernel. My USB devices disconnect. The rest of the system carries on fine. This has happened in 5.0.3 rt and 5.0.5 rt

I'm using openbox and an AMD card with amdgpu.

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:29 pm
by Capoeira
merlyn wrote:I've had a problem with this kernel. My USB devices disconnect. The rest of the system carries on fine. This has happened in 5.0.3 rt and 5.0.5 rt

I'm using openbox and an AMD card with amdgpu.
Are you using KDE?

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:21 pm
by merlyn
No. I've got openbox without a desktop environment.

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:32 pm
by Capoeira
merlyn wrote:No. I've got openbox without a desktop environment.
I see

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:20 pm
by Musicteacher
I'm using the 5.0.5 rt kernel here with no problems (ok, no problems is saying too much, see my other thread, but as far as I understand those problems are not related to the 5.0.5 rt kernel, at least I hope so!). System: Arch, DE: KDE. Intel graphics, I'd say it's not unlikely that this is related to the graphics driver.

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 1:14 am
by merlyn
@Musicteacher I've got AMD drivers and Capoeira has Nvidia. It could be both graphics drivers.

It could be kernel 5.0+ is causing your thermal problems as someone posted on the Arch forum : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=245542

Have you tried the stock kernel?

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 3:23 am
by funkmuscle
hey Cap, I've been having funky issues too with Arch. The screen will start to flicker, if I open a file manager to look for a file, the file moves when I try to click on it. Same with Mixbus or Ardour. You try to select a track and it moves.. Just weird stuff lately.

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:19 am
by Jack Winter
Hmm, I use KDE on nvidia right now and haven't had any graphics related issues. I have had a mouse issue with the scroll wheel being a bit wonky for the last few weeks, but that was fixed after updating the system yesterday. Personally I'm not aware of any specific problems with 5.0.x-rt.

Since I maintain the AUR build script for both linux-rt and linux-rt-lts it would interest me to know if this is only on Archlinux? The config changed quite a lot for v5, and is identical to the distro config except for the preemption model. Before there used to be quite a few more differences, but the distro config has changed so there is no need anymore to change anything except for preemption model.

Except if you'd really like to tune it for your own system, where you probably could reduce kernel scheduling latency even further, but then it wouldn't really be be suitable as a general purpose kernel on all systems and for all users. I've tried to stay as close as possible to the distro config all these years I've maintained the kernels.

Also note that linux-rt (at the moment 5.0.5-rt5) is to be considered alpha/beta level it's where things are tested with the rt patch, linux-rt-lts (4.19.31-rt18) is considered stable.

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:21 am
by merlyn
@funkmuscle Are you using 5.0.5 RT?

On the 3rd of March the maintainer of the AUR package posted this:
jhernberg wrote:I've just removed the patch for nvidia that has been used for years. Apparently it's no longer needed, have tested on 2 systems one with the current nvidia driver, and another with nvidia-340xx. The symptom was that without the patch X would hang making the GUI unresponsive, while the rest of the system kept on working. Hopefully it doesn't break anything :)
Has it broken things? 5.0.5 RT is unusable for me.

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:25 am
by merlyn
Jack Winter wrote:Also note that linux-rt (at the moment 5.0.5-rt5) is to be considered alpha/beta level it's where things are tested with the rt patch, linux-rt-lts (4.19.31-rt18) is considered stable.
Thanks for clarifying that. 4.19.31-rt18 works on my system. I'll stick with that.

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 12:07 pm
by Jack Winter
@merlyn

I don't think that is related. What used to happen without the patch is that the GUI would hang after a few minutes, while the underlying system would still run, respond to network requests, etc. I've removed it on both linux-rt and linux-rt-lts and have seen no signs of nvidia hanging on my systems for a couple of months without the patch.

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:25 pm
by Capoeira
I smells like an Invidia driver issue.

Do use that driver, too @Funkmuscle?

EDIT:
I also like to add that I had the oportunity to reproduce this on two installs since I made a fresh install after buying a NVDE HD

@Jack Winter
I use the pro-audio repo in Arch.
actualy it has been some time since I compared stock and RT kernel in terms of latency. I will test if I really need it

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:50 pm
by funkmuscle
Capoeira wrote:I smells like an Invidia driver issue.

Do use that driver, too @Funkmuscle?

EDIT:
I also like to add that I had the oportunity to reproduce this on two installs since I made a fresh install after buying a NVDE HD

@Jack Winter
I use the pro-audio repo in Arch.
actualy it has been some time since I compared stock and RT kernel in terms of latency. I will test if I really need it
no Cap, I have AMD so ATI and using OpenBox at the moment. I was working on a session in Mixbus and had to leave for an hour.. Came back to a frozen system as usual. Doesn't happen with the vanilla.

Re: anybody having problems with latest linux-rt and KDE?

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 3:15 pm
by Capoeira
It seams 5.0.7-rt5-1-rt solved the problem here