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I finally upgraded from 12.1. to 13.37 and I must say the new version looks really nice ! Good work ! :-)
Still I have one issue with starting X/starting KDE:
when I enter startx, X starts, the KDE splash screen appears, the progress icons appear dimmed, the first (hardware) icon "finishes", i.e. it gets redrawn "sharp", and then more or less nothing happens for almost 10 seconds.
Then KDE startup continues and it logs in fine.
This is with Intel on-board graphics, the desktop effects work fine:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10)
stracing ksmserver didn't bring me much further, at some point ksmserver and kwin do nothing for a few seconds, but I can't see what they are doing.
I can post the strace somewhere if somebody is interested.
I finally upgraded from 12.1. to 13.37 and I must say the new version looks really nice ! Good work ! :-)
Still I have one issue with starting X/starting KDE:
when I enter startx, X starts, the KDE splash screen appears, the progress icons appear dimmed, the first (hardware) icon "finishes", i.e. it gets redrawn "sharp", and then more or less nothing happens for almost 10 seconds.
Then KDE startup continues and it logs in fine.
This is with Intel on-board graphics, the desktop effects work fine:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10)
stracing ksmserver didn't bring me much further, at some point ksmserver and kwin do nothing for a few seconds, but I can't see what they are doing.
I can post the strace somewhere if somebody is interested.
Any ideas what's going on here ?
Alex
Could it be the aikonadi server? Try to turn this of in systemsettings and see if KDE loads faster.
No, doesn't seem like this.
Actually I can't find this setting in the KDE 4.5 coming with Slackware.
But actually, I have the impression the system is sitting there and doing nothing (there are no HD accesses), and not that something heavy is starting up.
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