On Friday 6 September 2024 01:33:04 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 6 September 2024 00:21:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I think I know what it is: the kernel's list of firmware blobs is empty. I > > don't know where they all went, but it shouldn't be too hard to find them. > > Indeed it was so. Now fixed and working fine.
Without all requisite firmware for your graphics the Kwin compositor will fall back to software rendering. As you've experienced without hardware acceleration Kwin will eat up CPU cycles. Emerging sys-kernel/linux-firmware and configuring your system to use it fixes the problem by providing the necessary code for the graphics card to do the heavy lifting: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel
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