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mackeralhello01:28
mackeralmmikowski: FWIW, I tried out your suggestions on fixing the multi-monitor blackout bug and am experiencing some weird behavior. 1/3 monitor still blanks out but sometimes comes back on or flickers when moving windows across, and the 'primary' display no longer defaults with the panel but switches it over next door01:31
mmikowskihi mackeral, now how's that for service :)01:31
mackeralhey mmikowski, how are you doing?01:32
mmikowskihey, alright! Busy working...01:32
mmikowskiSo I was just looking up the suggestions by scrolling back here.01:33
mackeralbasically tried upgrading the kernel01:34
mmikowskiSo, getting back up to speed here, the screens wouldn't fully "come back" after the system goes to sleep.01:34
mackeralthey have issues01:34
mmikowskiThere were some other issues that we discussed, but that is the primary one. A secondary one was HDMI in general.01:35
mackeralmoving the panel from center was the most annoying, but I think I can survive01:35
mmikowskiEr, sorry, not HDMI in general, I mean sound-over-HDMI.01:35
mackeraljust thought it was interesting01:35
mackeraloh yea, I havn't touched the sound over HDMI. It has always just been so much easier to use my speakers01:36
mmikowskiSo I *have* seen this before and supported multiple customers where external displays do not fully recover after waking.01:36
mackeraloh im not a customer Im just a bum01:36
mackeral:)01:36
mmikowskiThe interesting thing about all these cases was that it could occur anywhere in the display stack.01:37
mmikowskiThat is it could be the monitor itself, or the cable, or the driver.01:37
mmikowskiAnd there is some interplay there too. For example, the Nvidia 5.20 drivers (IIRC) fixed a similar issue with some, but when upgrading to 5.25, the issue returned.01:38
mackeralwell I bought the monitors piece meal cause I din't know if I could drive 'em all, so I first test out a 2 monitor setup on the intel driver01:38
mmikowskiThe most success I have seen has been with swapping out the cables.01:38
mackeraland experienced the same thing, but I made no note of the cables01:38
mackeralhmm01:39
mackeralcould give it a try01:39
mmikowskiYou might try with just your "best" cable first. That means *not* HDMI, if you can.01:39
mmikowskiDisplayPort has higher bandwidth and generally provides the best connection.01:39
mackeralyea I only have one of those01:39
mmikowskifwiw, it can also transmit sound like HDMI.01:39
mmikowskiSo does the issue ever occur on the DP cable monitor?01:40
mmikowskiwell, that's actually kinda besides the point, now that I think about it.01:40
mackeralI am not sure...01:40
mackeralyea I dunno why that would move the default panel default location01:41
mmikowskiYeah, and this is not that the display doesn't come back, it's that the wallpaper goes away.01:41
mmikowskiHave you tried setting your primary display?01:42
mackeralyea I just did that, well I set it to the left monitor so as to get the panel back on the middle one01:42
mmikowskiSystem Settings > Displays, then click on the most "stable" display and you should see an option to set it as the "Primary" display.01:42
mmikowskiAh, yes, so at least now you don't lose the panel when the center screen loses the background and other plasma decorations.01:43
mmikowskiright?01:43
mackeralyep01:43
mackeralwell originally i never lost the panel, which is why I mentioned it01:43
mmikowskioh01:43
mackeralor had any kind of update issues when moving windows, so I just thought the guys and gals were developing01:44
mmikowskiSo a couple of ideas: try higher-quality cables if you have some around.01:44
mackeralthat is easy enough01:45
mmikowskiYou could also inspect your refresh rates and make sure they are all equal (say at 60 Hz). This sort of thing, again, is a sort of race condition between hardware and Plasma. I've seen just swapping out from an HDMI cable to a display port cable completely fix it.01:48
mackerali think they are at 85,85,100 lemme check01:48
mackeralhmm01:49
mackeralno the utility wont let me access the displyport monitor01:49
mackeralnow01:49
mackeralwell anyways, it is 85 on the hdmi and 100 for the dp01:51
mmikowskiThe last check would be to run 5.27.x. Probably the easiest way to test that is to download Kubuntu 23.04 on USB and run that on a live USB. If it works there, then an upgrade to 5.27 is a potential soluiton.01:51
mmikowskihmm, IME, mixed refresh rates can definitely cause quirkiness :)01:52
mackeralbrb01:52
mmikowskinw, I gotta run right now.01:52
mmikowskittyl01:52
mackeralthey are all set at 85 now, see if it has much affect.01:56
mackeralnot quite sure why the panel placement had to change though01:58
mackeralah now there are some new issues...01:59
mackeralis there any easy way to quit x and restart?01:59
mackeralrunlevel301:59
mackeralin kubuntu02:00
mackeral?02:00
mackeralor you always boot into gui?02:00
mmikowskitelinit02:26
mmikowskior logout and back in.02:27
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user|99hi~07:02
user|99I have been having sleep/hibernate freezing with 22.04 LTS.07:03
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BluesKajHi all12:19
IrcsomeBot<gilbertoferreira> P8WX13:44
johnandmeghHi, just wanted to say thank you to all the folks who put together Kubuntu - this has really been a great experience combining the base of Ubuntu with the KDE ecosystem, it feels really modern and polished yet approachable - it's very much appreciated!15:17
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IrcsomeBot<Omar> how can enable charging my phone while my laptop on sleep mode feature16:01
yuesbeezhow to fix 'This was likely caused by: * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu Please use the tool 'ppa-purge' from the ppa-purge package to remove software from a Launchpad PPA and try the upgrade again.' when doing release upgrade. here is my /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log https://termbin.com/ibve16:28
alkisgyuesbeez: grep -r . /etc/apt/sources.list* | nc termbin.com 999916:54
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yuesbeezalkisg https://termbin.com/zqsu17:43
oerhekslong time i see so many ppa's ..17:53
oerheksand system76-dev makes it not ubuntu, they change ubuntu to the core.17:53
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Guest3539why is compositing so buggy on kde19:53
mmikowskiGuest3539: Buggy how?21:45
mmikowskifwiw, bugs can occur anywhere in the stack. IME, driver installation ease is Intel > AMD > Nvidia.21:46
mmikowskiBut once the drivers are installed, the stability and reliability of the drivers goes Nvidia > Intel > AMD.21:46
mmikowskiAlthough I don't have too much recent AMD driver experience, ymmv.21:47
mmikowskiSo what you might be seeing is KDE compositing errors on one of those that are not present on others.21:47
mmikowskiIME, both 5.24.x and 5.27.x are pretty stable on Nvidia; a bit less on Intel.21:48
Guest3539all i know is that when i disable compositing i get better performance21:56
Guest3539im using xorg21:56
mmikowskiGuest3539: Sorry, afkb for a while there :)23:32
mmikowskiDo you know what driver you are using? AMD / Intel / Nvidia?23:32
Guest353952523:32
Guest3539nvidia23:33
mmikowskiYou can also do some tweaks to improve compositor performance.23:33
mmikowskiGuest3539 are you on a laptops?23:33
Guest3539nope23:33
Guest3539well i just disabled compositor23:33
mmikowskiok, so NV is driving the display. Hmmf, generally have had great success with that here. Actually typing on a desktop system with 525 drivers right now.23:33
Guest3539i dont know my hardware is bad23:34
mmikowskiah, just to be sure, try this.23:34
mmikowskiglxinfo |grep -i nvidia23:34
Guest3539my cpu is still at 70% with firefox and a few apps opened23:34
mmikowskiWow, that's huge.23:35
Guest3539I dont understand why23:35
Guest3539and thats without compositor23:35
mmikowskiMin is around 2-5% with tons of stuff open (many tabs, IDE, gimp, etc).23:35
mmikowski*mine23:35
Guest3539with compositor active its even worse, the animations of kde become noticeably slow and just right clicking on something takes a second to display23:36
mmikowskiSound like low memory or disk space?23:36
Guest3539i have 15gb of ram23:36
Guest353916*23:36
mmikowskiWhat GPU do you have (e.g. Nvidia 1060, etc)23:36
mmikowskiRam should be plenty.23:37
mmikowskiwhat does df show? Is it near 100%?23:37
mmikowskiThat will make the system extra crashy if it is.23:37
IrcsomeBot<goodgoodsdaydayu> ram vs gmc vs ford f150, how to pick23:37
Guest3539what is df?23:37
mmikowskithat shows disk space.23:37
mmikowskiJust type in to a terminal23:37
Guest3539df is 1% everywhere and 22% for sda223:38
mmikowskiAlso, please try the glxinfo |grep -i nvidia. If that doesn't show nvidia, then you are likely running a different driver.23:38
mmikowskiWell then disk space is not an issue.23:38
Guest3539https://pastebin.com/RHLSZ7RU23:38
Guest3539so my cpu goes from 20% to 70% to 8% in a matter of seconds23:39
mmikowskihmmm, that's a great GPU. It should perform very well.23:39
mmikowskiWhat version of kubuntu?23:39
Guest353923.0423:40
mmikowskiIRRC, you're running X11.23:40
mmikowskiRight?23:40
Guest3539yes23:40
Guest3539kubuntu shipped with x11 by default23:40
mmikowskiRight23:40
mmikowskiBut I gotta ask :)23:40
Guest3539yep23:40
mmikowskilots of folks swap out.23:40
mmikowskiWhat is the CPU?23:40
Guest3539i5 5th gen23:41
Guest3539its a few years old23:41
mmikowskiyeah, that's pokey, but our office server runs great on that too.23:41
mmikowskiHave you looked at Htop?23:41
Guest3539nope but i looked at kde system monitor23:42
mmikowskisudo apt install htop -y && htop23:42
mmikowskiwell either should give you insight into what's chewing up the cpu.23:42
mmikowskiMy guess is if you fix that, then compositing and everything will be less crashy.23:42
mmikowskiIf you are looking for just works, I highly suggest using 22.04 LTS.23:43
mmikowskiI've gotta get back to work, but I hope that helps.23:43
Guest3539when my mouse is on system monitor, cpu is at 3% when my mouse is on konversation cpu goes up to 30%23:43
Pokeymmikowski: helo am intel 5th gen i523:45
Pokey:>23:46
mmikowskihaha, sorry pokey! That was an odd coincidence :P23:46
PokeyYou aren't the first23:46
PokeyWon't be the last23:46
mmikowskiYeah, I bet!23:46
mmikowskiAt least your handle isn't 'the'23:46
PokeyI mean that's just asking for it23:47
mmikowskiExactly.23:48
mmikowskiGuest3539: Sorry I have to run, but hopefully those ideas help.23:49
mmikowskiPokey, I'll see you around too :)23:49
PokeyCya!23:49

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