Hi Harald Yes I had this delay on a RedHat 9 machine running 2.4.x, with a TFT display that connected via a standard video cable. I put up with this for a while then upgraded to 2.6.x and the delay disappeared.
The problem I noticed was that X was looking for a suitable digital display, but could not find one after some time so settled for standard video. There is a setting in X that tells it not to look for digital displays, I forget what the option was :( Best bet is to upgrade you kernel to 2.6.x Darren On Tue, 09 Mar 2004, Harald Richard Ashburner wrote: > Well X under debian Sid is all good now. > I replaced kernels, unistalled and reinstalled xserver-xfree86 removed dirty nvidia > modules, put them back again and tried about 12 permuations of my XF86Config-4 file. > > Turns out to be all unecessary (I think) it's just that the new version of XFree > means that X takes greatly longer to load. (over a minute on my box) and during that > time everything is inactive, suggesting a problem that may not exist. Looking at > nvidia advertising screens for that length of time is not my idea of aesthetic > pleasure... but it's fine after that (including tuxkart, glsnake, armagetron, and > all that good, good stuff.) > For me it was equally slow using the nv or vesa drivers. > (1280x1024 resolution) 1024x768 is greatly faster. > > Has anyone else noticed this delay in starting up X? > > Hope to catch you at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat. > > Hal > > Afternoon sluggers, > A couple of weeks ago I did an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade > on my deb sid installation and X broke. > I have silly nvidia closed source drivers. Hmmm... > startx shows the nividia splash screen and total freeze of machine in that state. > Hard reboot. > Chaning /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to use vesa or nv drivers resulted in a similar freeze > (minus splash screen). > So, first I tried re-installing nvidia badness. No effect. > did an apt-get install <latest 2.4 kernel> leaving nvidia out of the picture, still > freezes with nv or vesa. > Have I done something totally daft? > Is something broken in X in sid? > Any thoughts welcomed... > Hal > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -------------------------------------------------- Darren Williams <dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <www.gelato.unsw.edu.au> -------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
