> Don't know if this is related, but I too have slow > boot time for my Acer > 7720G notebook and build 131. > > Though I don't see 4 minute boot up time, it is more > like 2+ minutes to GDM. > > When I enable -v and text booting, I see the drivers > rolling. What is > interesting is that the drivers seemingly loads more > than once. > For example, Acer Crystal Webcam is getting printed > twice at interval of > 40-45 seconds. Same with a few other drivers as well.
It's possible, or maybe even likely, that what's happening is that the first message is directly from the kernel, and the second message is after syslogd has started up and logged (including to the console) various kernel messages. That doesn't mean the drivers are being loaded twice, just that you're seeing the messages twice. The messages via syslogd may have a prefix consisting of the date, time, system information, and maybe some other information in square brackets, whereas messages directly from the kernel would not have those. > 'modinfo' shows about 280 drivers loaded. Is it > really required that > many drivers? Probably 1/3 or less of those are hardware drivers. modinfo shows _all_ kernel modules (although on older versions of the OS, the initial module(s) of the kernel weren't shown). Kernel modules can also include dynamically loadable system calls, scheduling classes, exec handlers (ELF, interpreter exec, a handler for executable jar files, and a handler for an obsolete executable format (SunOS 4.x a.out on SPARC, COFF on x86), filesystems, STREAMS modules, pseudo devices, and various other categories. In addition, some drivers involve multiple modules (bus nexus drivers, and modules that offload code that would otherwise be duplicated from the actual hardware drivers). So it's not nearly as bad as it sounds. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
