Hi,
I have recently upgraded from mandrake linux 9.1 to 9.2 on my compaq laptop. While the look of 9.2 is much better than 9.2, much seems to be desired on the performance frontier. I have noticed that it takes a long long time for the boot process to complete. I have to keep up with a blank screen that comes after the initial bootup(the one after bootloader, and before user logon). I have no idea why this is happenning. Also, when I enter my username and password KDE doesn't take a long time to get me to the desktop. I have graphical logon setup. Can somebody help me with this?.

Regards,
gulti.

How long is long?
What are the hardware specs?

Cheers,
Tink

As a general point - you might? want to disable any services from starting which you don't need.

su to Root user on the command line and type:

chkconfig --list | grep 5:on

You'll get a listing of services which are set to start in run level 5 (graphical mode in Mandrake)

There's a fair chance that some of these you wont need - so for example

chkconfig httpd off

(to stop apache from starting in run levels 2,3,4,5)

(same "syntax" to stop other services)

Hi,
This is the output of the chkconfig command. I am working mostly on socket programming and some website stuff. Please let me know which of these services should be turned off.

alsa 0: off 1: off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
dm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off
kheader 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
keytable 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
partmon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
random 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rawdevices 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
saslauthd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
portmap 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
httpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
cups 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
postfix 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
named 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
linuxconf 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
apmd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
switchprofile 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
nfslock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
harddrake 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
devfsd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
yppasswdd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
lisa 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
pcmcia 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
nfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ypserv 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ypxfrd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
smb 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
mysql 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
autofs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ipvsadm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
internet 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
winbind 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
webmin 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
acpid 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
acpi 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
wine 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off


Regards,
Gulti.:rolleyes:

Well..... here's the list from Mandrake's own site - sufficient descriptions of what each service is for:

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/adaemon2.html

Should be enough of a prompt for what you can disable.