Re: looong x startup delay with nvidia geforce 4 mx 440 ddr
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:22:12 -0400
Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
> Hey folks, my x setup at work functions perfectly -- clear, crisp, etc
> -- except that on startup, or when switching between x sessions or
> from console to an x session, there's a delay of close to a minute
> before the monitor activiates (in between, it makes a couple of clicks
> like it does on first powerup and poweroff).
>
> I had at first just assumed that's the way x works, or a problem with
> the nvidia drivers, or some such; but I've since set up a couple other
> systems with nvidia cards and not had the same problem. I thought
> maybe I would try putting the XFDev option back in my XF86Config-4
> file (took it out long ago when I switched from the nv driver to
> nvidia non-free drivers), but I notice dpkg-reconfigure -plow
> xserver-xfree86 doesn't give me that option with the nvidia drivers.
> So I gues that's not the solution.
>
> Anyone know what might be causing this problem? Any ideas on the
> solution?
>
> I'm running:
>
> xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-6 (testing)
> nvidia-kernel-src 1.0.4349-2 (no longer current, I see from
> apt-cache) nvidia-glx-src 1.0.4349-1
> a self-rolled 2.4.21 kernel
I did have the same thing once until I found out that the version of
kernel-src and glx-src where not the same.After I got the same version
for both everything was beautyful (that was with gentoo,though).
Klaus
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