[SOLVED] Frequent KDE4.2 lockups

Is anyone else getting frequent (2x/day) lockups of KDE4? First the panel and "start" menu become unresponsive, then everything chokes.
I'm not sure whether this is because of recent KDE4.2 updates or nvidia driver updates (I'm running 180.35 right now).
I'm probably going to revert to an earlier nvidia driver, unless somebody has some evidence otherwise.
Meanwhile, I'm back in good old openbox. KDE4.2 was looking pretty good there for a couple of weeks, though.
Last edited by dhave (2009-03-05 21:53:03)

dhave wrote:
Is anyone else getting frequent (2x/day) lockups of KDE4? First the panel and "start" menu become unresponsive, then everything chokes.
I'm not sure whether this is because of recent KDE4.2 updates or nvidia driver updates (I'm running 180.35 right now).
I'm probably going to revert to an earlier nvidia driver, unless somebody has some evidence otherwise.
Meanwhile, I'm back in good old openbox. KDE4.2 was looking pretty good there for a couple of weeks, though.
Are we ralking KDE4 via Arch repos or KDEmod? The later is rock stable here, with Nvidia 180.22.
Do you have any plasmoids installed from AUR? I had the Custom Weather Plasmoid installed-and that was causing numerous problems...once I got rid of it, things are happy now.

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