Re: 2 problems after sid update (nvidia and kde menus)
Daniel Teichert wrote:
> And I heard Haim Ashkenazi exclaim:
>> 1. my nvidia drivers take a very long time to load (about 30 seconds),
>> and every time I switch from X to console and back it takes about 15
>> seconds to load. I thought it was a memory/CPU issue but running top
>> didn't show heavy load while switching. I run the latest
>> nvidia-kernel/nvidia-glx binaries with kernel 2.4.24.
>
> Not very helpful, perhaps, but I had this same problem and compiled
> 2.6.3 with the kernel modules as per the instructions found here:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html
I can't use 2.6 since I'm using vmware, and I don't think it supports kernel
2.6.
>
> (...more or less, anyway) and the problem went away. I'm not sure what
> was the original cause, however... I suspect that recompiling the 2.4.24
> kernel with modules (or just the module, perhaps?) would also have
> solved the problem...
I tried using the stock 2.4.25 and compiled the nvidia module from source
but it was exactly the same.
>
> That's may well be overkill, however.
> --
> Daniel Teichert, BYU ECEn Dept. CSR
> Email address: danielt@ee.byu.edu
> Magnet address (no legitimate email, please): devnull@ee.byu.edu
thanx
--
Haim
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