XD2-latest, 2.6.1-rc3 as of now, RH9 as base distro; also using
synaptics_drv.o from the 0.12.2 tarball, Radeon 7500 card.
The startup sequence of XD2 seems to hit a timing issue with 2.6.x
kernels so that the top panel's applet icons aren't displayed in
the panel itself.
That however is a minor problem - the big one is that if I don't
go right-clicking the panel in some 10 seconds (which makes the
icons appear, btw) my CPU usage goes to 100% with these in 'top':
64 processes: 62 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 67.9% user 32.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 0.0% idle
Mem: 1033892k av, 207756k used, 826136k free, 0k shrd, 15052k buff
128844k active, 47412k inactive
Swap: 514040k av, 0k used, 514040k free 109240k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
2327 asuardi 25 0 15648 6428 14972 R 27.9 0.6 0:04 0 notification-ar
2271 root 15 0 63732 15M 51256 S 25.1 1.5 0:04 0 X
2320 asuardi 15 0 15300 5236 14848 S 23.7 0.5 0:03 0 pam-panel-icon
2313 asuardi 15 0 19696 11M 16988 S 21.5 1.1 0:03 0 gnome-panel
2258 root 17 0 3932 1064 3788 R 0.9 0.1 0:00 0 top
2322 asuardi 15 0 15588 6512 14916 S 0.1 0.6 0:00 0 gnome-cups-mana
1 root 16 0 1380 480 1344 S 0.0 0.0 0:07 0 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 events/0
4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kblockd/0
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khubd
6 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 pdflush
[NB: the first process is notification-area-applet]
and the desktop is only partially usable (it is still possible to
have the root window menu activated, but nothing else apparently).
Eventually this leads to a stage where you can only Ctrl-Alt-Bksp
out of X (or Alt-Fn to a console and kill the spinning processes).
If instead I'm not too slow and I prod the panel with a right-click
on it, nothing of this happens and the desktop is as happy as with
a 2.4.x kernel under the hood.
Since this is 100% reproducable and very easily, I'm available for
testing and providing further info.
Thanks in advance, ciao,
--alessandro
"Immagina intensamente e vedrai
dove gli altri pensano che non ci sia niente"
(Cristina Dona', "Salti nell'aria")
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