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

[Mark Bidewell]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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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Another mitigation is to use the traditional rather than the Kickoff
menu.  I am seeing this with nouveau as well, but I installed from the
nvidia installer, and I believe it may have borked by X.  Will try
again with F12 final.

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