X slow startup

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Tue Feb 24 22:59:58 UTC 2004


lwj wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 13:52, Alberto Cardinalli Jr. wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I know that problems with NVIDIA drivers and other stuff aren't the
>>focus of this list, but I really tried everything that I saw in NVIDIA
>>discussion forum, nothing resolved my problem and NVIDIA don't give us
>>an answer. So I think that someone can help me with some hint. In my
>>machine X startup takes about 30 seconds, but when I had an old kernel
>>and driver versions(nvidia:4496/kernel:2129), it was normal. 
>>
>>My machine:
>>
>>Video Card: Riva TNT2 32Mb RAM PCI
>>Driver Version: 1.0-5336
>>Distribution: Fedora Core 1 (2.4.22-1.2174.nptl)
>>Video Bios Revision: 02.05.19.03.00
>>Processor: AMD XP2000+ 
>>Motherboard: Asus A7V8X
>>Memory: 512Mb DDR400
> 
> 
> I don't think that this is an issue with the video driver. I am using
> similar card (Riva TNT2 with 32 MB of ram AGP) I am running on a slower
> machine with the same amount of ram and I do not have any problems with
> graphics performance. For 2D drawing I would not expect the AGP/PCI to
> make that much of a difference in the performance. There must be
> something else going on here.

Is this slow startup invoked from boot or from doing something like
"startx" or "telinit 5"?  If it's not from boot, do an "uptime" before
you invoke the command and see if the load is high.  You may have some
background process sucking up a lot of resources (updatedb comes to mind
right away).
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