freebsd7 & kde4 & performance

[Michal Kulczewski]

Brian wrote:
> freebsdemail at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Unfortunetly I've been having the same difficulty with KDE4. I've
>> tried using both the nv driver as well as nvidia.
>>
>> My hardware is intel core2 duo 1.8ghz, nvidia 8600 gs with 512
>> dedicated memory and 2gigs of system memory. I've tried using 7.0, 7.1
>> and 8.0(Current) with all malloc debugging features disabled as well
>> as kernel debugging options turned off. I've also tried switching back
>> to UFS filesystems from ZFS(root install) to no avail.
>>
>> In the end I ended up using kde3 due to endless headaches. I felt I'd
>> share this in hopes someone has managed to get it to run reasonably well.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tom
>> ------Original Message------
>> From: Michal Kulczewski
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: freebsd7 & kde4 & performance
>> Sent: Oct 11, 2008 12:18 AM
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7.
>> I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati
>> drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with it. Is it
>> because of poor graphic card or driver itself? I'm looking forward to
>> any suggestions.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  Michal
> 
> 
> Here is some additional info, I too am doing v3.
> 
> http://freebsd.kde.org/instructions.php


well, there is no much information available though. IMHO it's a pity
that once fancy gui is available, freebsd users can not make use of it.
I have to switch to gnome (somehow I don't like kde3).

Cheers,
 Michal