KDE on AMD64
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Hello,
I have debian-amd64 installed and running on a Compaq Presario R3000Z. There
were a few bumps along the way, but the install has gone well thanks to info
on this mailing list and various web pages out there. Grub boot, networking
(sans wireless), sound, video, X, Alps Glidepoint, are all functioning
without problem.
Trying to run KDE
Once I had X up and going with the latest nVidia driver (6111), I pulled down
the kde meta-package and installed. No problems in the install, but whenever
a user logs in kde takes forever (well a long time at least) to start. It
sits on initializing system services for several minutes, then the startup
box dissapears and we have just the background for another few minutes, then
the startup sound plays, after another couple of minutes the panel appears
and things seem to be normal. Normal except that the first time the K icon
button is pressed it takes 3-4 minutes for the menu to pop up. Once past all
of this, everything seems to function OK.
I have monitored the CPU load during all of this, and it is practically idle.
Memory usage is within physical ram size, and there does not even seem to be
much disk activity. I have Googled around, but haven't found anything
helpful yet. Saw something on rebuilding the font cache (run fc-cache -f -v
as root), but that didn't make a difference. I am suspecting (but not
hopeful) that it might be related to the file-system being used (everything
is ext3) and I am about to fall back to ext2 and see what happens. Has
anyone else run into the same problem? Any other hints for things to look
at?
For the record:
machine: Compaq Presario R3000Z
CPU: Athlon64 3000+
Video: 64MB nVidia GeForce 4 440 Go
Mem: 512 MB DDR SDRAM
HDD: 60 GB -
0.5 GB ext3 partition mounted on /
6.0 GB ext3 partition mounted on /usr
6.0 GB ext3 partition mounted on /var
46.0 GB ext3 partition mounted on /work
1.5 GB swap partition
kde version 3.3 (though the meta-package has version # 4:3.1.2 on it)
kernel version 2.6.8 - compiled from kernel-source-2.6.8-6 package
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John C. Martin
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