F12: "start" menu takes a very long time to load

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Monday 16 November 2009 12:47:43 Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> I just installed F12 on a fresh computer, and for the most part things
> seem to be working well. One thing I'm seeing in KDE, though -- which
> is new to me -- is that whenever I click on the Start menu (the Fedora
> logo in the bottom right), my whole desktop freezes for several
> seconds and then the menu comes up. I can tell it's freezing because,
> for example, if I have a "yum update" running in a konsole at the same
> time, its output stops being updated until the menu comes up.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this? I'm pretty sure this is new for me since
> the betas ...
> 
> MEF
> 

Hi,
it's NVidia bug, lot of people complaints about it but we can't do anything as 
it's proprietary driver :-(

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533620

There are two solution - if you don't rely on 3D - use nouveau driver instead 
closed one. 2D speed is nice, better than closed but no 3D yet.
If you need 3D and/or closed driver (VPDAU is nice too) try XOrg but without 
xserver-1.7.1-window-pictures.patch. There's scratch build in Koji (see 
comment #13).

Jaroslav
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