Re: Slow and ugly X startup with NVidia drivers
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:55:23PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote:
> Hello friends,
>
> This is already bothering me for a while, but I never really
> cared. But now I just want it fixed.
> The problem: I use X 4.0.3 as in testing, and the Nvidia kernel
> and GLX drivers, I'm _not_ using the newest ones, because I
> heard that there are problems with them.
>
> When I start X with startx, it takes rather long until the
> screen is filled with something useful. It flickers a couple
> of times, there is a green horizontal line at the top of the
> screen, then, as soon as I move the mouse around, or just after
> having waited 5 seconds or so, the windowmanager and the GNOME
> panel appear. I remember when I was using a PII-400 with the
> same graphics card (Nvidia Geforce DDR) but not with the
> nvidia drivers, this problem did not occur, and X started alot
> faster. so I guess it has something to do with those nvidia
> drivers. Could it be some configuration issue I missed? Has
> anybody seen this on his/her machine?
> I'm using nvidias AGP implementation, not the kernel one
> (agpgart).
>
> Thanks for any info
> Alex
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G'day Alex,
I'm using XFree 4.03, Nvdriver + GLX 0.9.769-1, kernel 2.4.4's
AGP support, on a celeron 700 + 196 Mg RAM and have the same issues
with X startup, I think it's a driver issue not a configuration problem
It's never caused any problems so I'm happy anyway
Cheers
Joel
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