Any news on when Plasma 6.7 will be availble with Neon?

[joneall]

I've been having lots (several a day) of crashes mostly by plasmashell but sometimes kwin.I'm hoping plasma 7, which is supposed to contain lots of bug fixes, will fix those.

[claydoh]

Do you mean Plasma 6.7?

This is slated for release on Tuesday.


It should be in neon within a few days, if it isn't out immediately. Pretty much as soon as it can be built, and any problems there can be resolved.

I see pieces being built or in the queue on the build server.

[claydoh]

I've been having lots (several a day) of crashes mostly by plasmashell but sometimes kwin.

I'd suggest booting to one of the previous kernel builds in Grub, just to check it isn't a driver issue. There haven't been any plasma-related updates in the past ~week iirc, but there was an Ubuntu kernel security update.

[joneall]

Yes, I meant 6.7, and it's corrected now. I've been having these problems for at least 2 months now.

By driver issue, do you mean the eternal quandary about Nvidia vs nouveau?

$ ubuntu-drivers devices
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00000FC8sv00001458sd0000368Dbc03sc00 i00
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
model : GK107 [GeForce GT 740]
driver : nvidia-driver-470-server - distro non-free recommended
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

$ lsmod | grep nouveau
nouveau 2830336 101
mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 i915,nouveau
drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 nouveau
ttm 110592 3 drm_ttm_helper,i915,nouveau
drm_display_helper 212992 2 i915,nouveau
drm_kms_helper 249856 5 drm_display_helper,i915,nouveau
drm 700416 47 drm_kms_helper,drm_display_helper,drm_buddy,drm_tt m_helper,i915,ttm,nouveau
video 73728 2 i915,nouveau
wmi 40960 3 video,mxm_wmi,nouveau

Does this mean I am running nouveau (what I usually want) or nvidia?

P.S.I can't find driver manager in system settings.

[claydoh]

By driver issue, do you mean the eternal quandary about Nvidia vs nouveau?

No idea, I thought it was only a few days, so I went by what the most recent updates were. if it has been going on longer, then your thought on Plasma updates is much more valid.

P.S.I can't find driver manager in system settings.

Neon does not come with Ubuntu/Kubuntu's driver manager GUI. (install software-properties-qt if you want the Software Sources tool that provides the driver manager, though it won't be added to System Settings)

Does this mean I am running nouveau (what I usually want) or nvidia?

It seems so. You won't have Nvidia unless you explicitly installed it yourself.