On Monday 16 November 2009 12:47:43 Mary Ellen Foster wrote: > I just installed F12 on a fresh computer, and for the most part things > seem to be working well. One thing I'm seeing in KDE, though -- which > is new to me -- is that whenever I click on the Start menu (the Fedora > logo in the bottom right), my whole desktop freezes for several > seconds and then the menu comes up. I can tell it's freezing because, > for example, if I have a "yum update" running in a konsole at the same > time, its output stops being updated until the menu comes up. > > Is anyone else seeing this? I'm pretty sure this is new for me since > the betas ... > > MEF > Hi, it's NVidia bug, lot of people complaints about it but we can't do anything as it's proprietary driver :-( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533620 There are two solution - if you don't rely on 3D - use nouveau driver instead closed one. 2D speed is nice, better than closed but no 3D yet. If you need 3D and/or closed driver (VPDAU is nice too) try XOrg but without xserver-1.7.1-window-pictures.patch. There's scratch build in Koji (see comment #13). Jaroslav -- Jaroslav ?ezn?k <jreznik at redhat.com> Associate Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 731 455 332 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/