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

[Martin Kho]

On Monday 16 November 2009 15:24:22 Martin Kho wrote:
> 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
> 
For reference see:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=233378&page=3
comment #34

Martin Kho