On 2003.08.28 20:48, Andrew Farmer wrote:
Lately, I've noticed that X seems to take entirely too long to come up. After starting xdm, the machine takes as much as perhaps 25 to 35 seconds to display the login screen -- it used to take just one or two -- and switching to the X virtual terminal from a console takes 12 seconds or more: at first, I just get a blank VC, then the XDM panel is partially displayed for another five seconds or so with a frozen cursor, before I can log in. My XF86Config is attached. As implied in the file, I'm using a Rage128 (yes, old) with a PS2 mouse. The setup has worked in the past without problems... I'm using ~x86 world, though.
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USBMouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection
Does it make a difference on whether you are starting X with or without your USB mouse present? I would think that X might have a problem as the mouse0 device does not always exist unless there is actually a mouse0. Try /dev/input/mice, which includes all input/mouseX devices, if you ever have more than one, but more importantly: it always there.
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "gpm"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection
Does it also make a difference if you do not start gpm and comment out this section in your config? I'm not familiar with gpm usage, so it is just a suggestion to try and either narrow down the problem, or cancel this as a cause.
Also, have you had a look through X's log file? Anything interesting pop up in there?
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