Basajaun wrote: > Joseph H. Fry wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 09:12 -0700, Basajaun wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have a weird problem with the response time inside X. I am running > > > Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.12-1-686-smp on a P4 3.4GHz HT with a SATA > > > drive and 1GB RAM. Whenever I start X (XFCE 4.2.2), I experience the > > > following problems: > > [snip]
> > Second, are you sure there isn't a problem in hardware/bios that is > > causing this... > > No, I am not. It might well be the case. Eureka! Hooray! and all that! Yes, the problem was an incorrect BIOS setting. I don't know why the other PC we bought has a different BIOS setting (we bought two identical ones), but mine had a "Frame Buffer Size" of only 8MB. It made the boot time go up to 8m, whereas increasing it to 32MB (the maximum), sets the boot time in 1m10s. I have tried enabling/disabling the "PnP OS", the "Serial Port A", "Parallel Port" and "ISA Enable Bit", plus changing the "ATA/IDE Config" from Legacy to Enhanced, and the "IGP Aperture" (shouldn't it be _A_GP?) from 256MB to 128MB... but nothing would affect the booting time, except the FBS setting. With FBS=32MB, not only it boots in 1m10s, but Firefox starts in 5s (before: 15s) and KMail in 6s (before: 32s). The responsiveness is perfect, the icons get focused immediately when the mouse hovers over them, and the menus are displayed whithin miliseconds (ejem, my perception is veeery acute, :^). For me, it's end of story, except that I'm going to reboot the other comp when I get hold of it (and the owner is not around, hehehe), and see its BIOS settings... Thanks everybody, and specially Joseph! Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]