On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Ewald Jenisch <a...@jenisch.at> wrote:
> Hi, > > On my system (FreeBSD 7.3 AMD64, system & kernel current as per today) > it takes awully long to start up gnome (2.30) - "awfully long" meaning > 2-3 minutes (this is on a Intel quadcore-CPU with 4GB RAM!) > > In my /etc/rc.conf I've got > > gnome_enable="YES" > > I've already ruled out the usual suspect being a missing/wrong entry > in /etc/hosts (http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20); my > hostname ist resolvable including reverse-resolution, plus I've got > the entries in my /etc/hosts. > > Is there any way to speed up gnome startup - or at least a pointer as > to where I can start looking for the cause of the problem? > > Thanks in advance for any clue, > -ewald > One possibility may be that X system is trying to auto-detect your hardware which is taking time . Checking X configuration files and making them conforming to your hardware may eliminate this possibility . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"