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onlycheez
15th August 2011, 01:58 PM
Hi, I've got this problem.
Battery in my laptop is almost dead (bios is warning me) and quite bad AC plug meaning that very often power daemon says AC unplugged/plugged. And when this happens battery tray icon usually become a that I don't have battery in although I have. At this moment KDE Plasma freezes. Frozen are: panel, icons in tray (except non-kde apps like Dropbox or gnome network manager), widgets, alt+F2, popup menu on Desktop. Opened apps are running normally (even kde apps except Dolphin) or I can open them in konsole.
It's frozen only for some time like 1 or 2 minutes and then it's ok again.
When I try remove battery it works fine, but I need it in because of bad AC plug.
I also noticed that during the freeze upowerd process uses 80-90% of CPU.

I have HP Probook 4710s with ATI Radeon 4330 and open source radeon driver on Fedora 15 64bit.

Does somebody have any idea how to fix it?

nullspace
30th August 2011, 05:18 AM
Bamp!

I am using KDE 4.7.0, and I am facing the same problem. The plasma widgets get frozen for a minute or two, sometimes longer. After a while, it randomly starts working again. I don't use a battery in my laptop at all, so I don't it's a problem with the battery.

I wish there was a "plasma-desktop --replace" option that I could use through KRunner.