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

[Martin Kho]

> On 11/19/2009 07:49 AM, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> > I just installed F12 final and I noticed something interesting on this
> > topic.  In order to get full 1600x1200 resolution on my monitor (it
> > incorrectly detects as 1280x1024 with the nouveau driver) I briefly
> > disabled KMS while using system-config-display.  The start menu bug
> > returned using nouveau.  Reenabling KMS restored performance.
> 
> Interesting.  Would you mind commenting such in
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=533620
> 
>  From what I gather from my only slight comprehension of the
> xserver-1.7.1-window-pictures.patch in question, and after a slightly
> heated discussion in #kde-devel from others that *do* know it a bit
> better... it would seem that the patch is far from ideal, and while it
> does fix kms-related crashes, it comes at a performance hit in some
> cases (very well be the non-kms case it seems).
> 
> -- Rex

FYI: On the Nvidia mailing list this issue is discussed in [1]. As a result 
Aaron Platter (NVIDIA developer) has filed a bug report [2].

[1]  
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=283ef5027346a491c787ced6abc00737&t=140768
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25136

Martin Kho


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