Laptop:- nothing for several minutes before bringing up certain apps..
I am wondering if anyone might have experienced this frustrating behaviour, and if fixed, be willing to share the information of how it was done.
Acer 1350LC laptop running Debian Sarge 3.1
KDE as window manager, 2.4.27-2-686 kernel
To circumvent any posts about the 2.6 kernel,
[On this laptop, the 2.6.XX kernel does not run for any Linux applications except Debian, and for Debian it does not run well, trouble with touchpad and several other things. So changing to it at this time is not an option. Though experimentation continues. I am unable to download the latest kernel because I am on dialup at 31.2kbps, so that is out as well.]
Before connecting with <pon> everything runs and works flawlessly
But upon connection with <pon> when bringing up mainly KDE applications, the machine stalls for several minutes before the application presents itself. Though everything except that app on the desktop still works.
Anything KDE or Gnome does this, because both have been tried.
But if the app is being used while pon connects. Like the K menu is up on the monitor, or the kedit selection box for opening a file is on the monitor, and up while connecting, it works after that.
Also if an application is open, like open office is up on the monitor or one of the desktops, before connecting the application works without needing to wait. But on some apps, when trying to open a file on an open application after connecting, will stall for several minutes. There is no undue activity, in the way of CPU, or memory usage. Nothing shows up in <top>
It just appears to be waiting, then after some minutes comes up.
The <pon> connection when active is in some way interfering with some of these applications on the first use. So it has something to do with <pon> I think.
Can someone point me to some reading or a possible fix?
Thanks in advance,
Charlie
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