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Sep 26, 2010

I am using OpenSUSE for the first time. I quite like it but KDE on 11.3 is really giving me a hard time. My desktop becomes very sluggish after about an hour of usage and the KDE widgets/desktop are no longer rendered properly, with color spilling and bloated borders etc.

To give you a better idea, here is a screenshot of my desktop -[url] here's another - [url]

I suspect that this might be an issue with drivers for Intel Graphics, though I couldn't find anyone experiencing exactly the same problem as me. I am running a P4 2.4 GHz with onboard intel graphics.

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Code:
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Code: Select allcpu:                                                           
                       AMD A6-3670 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, 800 MHz
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