Yes I am using startx. I am using a relatively fast 1gig Compact Flash (still slower than a hard drive though) and a ricoh EB1 1.4Ghz Processor. 512 megs of ram. The ramdisk is 12 megs and loads the root file system and some libraries specific to our application. I contemplated putting X in ramdisk but then ramdisk would be massive. Is there an alternative to starting x without using startx? Again I am using TWM, which doesn't have very good documentation. It's possible that it is slow as well. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Vojkovich [mailto:mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 5:49 PM To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: X on embedded Systems Are you using startx? If so, is it faster when running XFree86 directly without any clients? I can't recall ever seeing X start up so slowly. How fast is this CPU? Does this system have a disk drive? If so, are you using DMA? My first instinct would be that this is a disk problem or you're starting more than you think you're starting. Which XFree86 driver is this? Mark. On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Michael Hamilton wrote: > We use twm as our windows manager and X starts up and the X sits there > for ages before an xterm or anything can start up. It's about 10 seconds > (consistently). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Vojkovich [mailto:mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:05 PM > To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: X on embedded Systems > > Is starting X a performance problem for you? Without a window > manager it's only takes a second for XFree86 to start over here. > I thought this was fairly quick already. > > Mark. > > On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Michael Hamilton wrote: > > > Can you make any suggestions on making X start up faster (or appear > to) > > on an embedded system? I have already tried tweaking the font > situation > > (loading them with fontpath rather than the font server). Is it > possible > > to preload X somehow before the UI comes up, perhaps early in system > > startup or in parallel with other programs? > > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > -M > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > XFree86 mailing list > > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
