Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-16 Severity: normal
this one is fascinating: you can actually watch the numlock+capslock keys flash on and off during the thirty seconds it takes to start up X. the issue is that the machine is running so incredibly slowly that you can actually see things like resizing and window creation occurring right under your nose, on-screen. for example, starting the editor "ted", you first get a window of size 5x10, then a couple of seconds later when the menu is added by the window manager, you get a window of size 30 x 20, and then a couple of seconds after _that_ you get a window of size approx 300 x 300 as the ted program adds its File etc menu, and then it goes to full size. the bug that i am raising is with xbomb, which, on resize, actually manages to kerchunk back to the ORIGINAL size after some strange x and y refactoring. out of about eight attempts to resize the xbomb package, only two actually succeeded in resizes. all other attempts resulted in first the window being resized to one of the axes, followed by the other one, followed by the window collapsing back to its original size. i believe the issue to be that the X-server is running faster, and at a higher priority, than the applications, and that the drawing event queue is consequently distracting things. if there is, in X, some sort of draw timing delay deliberately introduced in order to avoid the above issues, it clearly isn't working, and clearly isn't long enough!!! i am, however, quite impressed that switching to console and back again, and also suspend, works fine! i thought at first, after the first minute, and about the 20th flashing on a 1s on, 2s off duty cycle of the caps and numlock keys, that X had crashed. after about two minutes, X finally decided to spring into life. after another thirty seconds, i had the applications back, too. paint drying isn't interesting, but watching X clunk along on such an abominably slow machine (and actually work) is bizarre and horribly fascinating. l. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux highfield 2.4.23-1-686 #1 Sun Nov 30 20:51:10 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages xserver-xfree86 depends on: ii debconf 1.4.7 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii xserver-common 4.2.1-15 files and utilities common to all ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-3 compression library - runtime -- debconf information excluded
