On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Valentine Kouznetsov wrote: >I have weird "problem". Using RedHat9 X4.3 takes too much time >to start-up. Using the same config file on debian, X 4.2 takes >by a factor of 5 less time to startup X. I use the same laptop >in both cases (dual Linux boot :). Any clue why it happens. >Config files as well as logs are attached. I also confirm the >problem installing X4.2 from RH8 on RH9 (but in this case I've >got incompatibility among other libraries when I startup kde). Looking at your log file from RHL 9 I see: (II) RADEON(0): Video RAM override, using 16384 kB instead of 16384 kB (**) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 16384 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM) Don't use the VideoRAM option ever, unless it is absolutely required for your hardware to work properly. The Radeon driver in particular properly detects the amount of video memory on all existing Radeon hardware properly. Specifying this option when it isn't needed is known to cause various different problems. It may or may not be causing problems in your case, but it is unnecessary and should be avoided nonetheless. (WW) RADEON(0): Cannot read colourmap from VGA. Will restore with default Looks like it's unable to read the palette. Nice to see whoever wrote that error message spelled colour correctly at least. I haven't looked at the source code, but it's possible there might be a delay caused by this theoretically. This: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,4), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x000c (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 2: bridge is at (0:30:0), (0,2,4), BCTRL: 0x0006 (VGA_EN is cleared) (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:31:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) PCI-to-CardBus bridge: (II) Bus 3: bridge is at (2:3:0), (2,3,3), BCTRL: 0x05c0 (VGA_EN is cleared) (II) PCI-to-CardBus bridge: (II) Bus 4: bridge is at (2:3:1), (2,4,4), BCTRL: 0x05c0 (VGA_EN is cleared) ... looks very fishy to me. Not sure wether or not it's related to your problem though. >Also one "feature" which present in RH9 and X4.3, once I startup >X three keyboard indicators (caps lock, etc.) starts blinking. >This is not a case of X4.2. That is an indicator that you are having a kernel panic/oops. Check your /var/log/messages for the error messages. >I have a hint that if I'll change "Protocol" for mouse >in X4.3 for instance to Microsoft, delay is gone, but >of course mouse is crazy. What kind of mouse are you using? Serial/USB/PS2, and what brand/model? Sounds like you're having a problem with the mouse driver trying to autodetect or probe your mouse. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
