X is very very sloww... please help!
 

Hi, I am running Mandrake 9.2

Here is the problem. After I installed Mdk, with X, everything was great. However, one day after I rebooted, X took over 2 minutes to start up. I then logged in with KDE, and KDE was also very slow. I didn't install anything during that time, except for changing the KDE splash screen =^)

Do I have to reinstall mandrake, again? Or is there another solution?

Please help!

Look in KDE to see if a device is 'busy'. Also if you did a new install please run Mandrake Update; it is under packaging, and ensure you are running the latest code. I have 3.1.3, and Xserver is 4.3. I've my nVidia setup; braggin' since I did it just lastnight, SB Live! setup, and all apps seem to function fast/proper.

I guess I could be a device; as soon as I get my crappy DSL up, I'l run the update ;^) Thanks!

EDIT: Well, X is still slow, there are no busy devices and I ran the update. Someone please help! The only solution I found was to reinstall the system, for the 10th time! :cry:

Any solution is greatly accepted! (Now I'm desparate ;^))

try installing the Xfree86 packages again. This is what i do when i am lazy and cannot be bothered fixing the problem.


Hit the rpm source directory and type
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps XFree86*

Reinstalling the packs worked for the most part ;^)
Thanks!

Well, it's been awhile since I reinstalled XFree's packs, everything was back to normal, but now X is slow all over again. I have a bit more details this time.

It appears as though KDE experiences speed problems the most. Ice and WindowMaker are relatively fast. I'm not sure about GNOME. Following what I did last time, I reinstalled XFree, still slow. Then I tried to reinstall KDE, still no luck.

Any ideas?

I recently got Mandrake 9.2 and this happened to me also. What I did was edit the /etc/X11/XFConfig-4 file manually and added
Option "noaccel" "false"
to my video card section
This helped ALOT but now my sound is having problems.

EDIT: It seems that the Mandrake control thingy will get rid of it. So every time you have to add it back in

Editing the config file worked very well. Thanks! My sound is actually pretty decent after editing, kinda choppy at times, but I guess it's ok ;^)