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

[Martin Kho]

On Monday 16 November 2009 15:03:03 Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> 2009/11/16 Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>:
> > Be warned, there are other bad side-effects to the current nvidia
> > drivers than just the pausing of kickoff.  We've received reports of
> > other mysterious pauses, failures as well.
> >
> > See also,
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#NVIDIA-xorg-broken
> 
> Bleah ... seems I may come to regret getting an nVidia card in my new
> work desktop machine. :( (And I do actually need to use 3D on it, too)
> 
> Just a note that the actual RPMs from that alternative Xorg build
> referred to in that bug report don't seem to be available any more,
> either.
> MEF
> 
Hi,

You can take the current version of xorg - 1.7.1-7 - srpm and disable 
xserver-1.7.1-window-pictures.patch.

This is what Adam Williamson did.

Martin Kho