Hi everyone!

I installed slackware 13.0 on a toshiba nb100 netbook with 1Gb RAM and 1.6Ghz processor and I have the following problem:

after starting X with KDE 4.2.4, it takes ages to launch any application. Even starting X is a painful procedure, where everything freezes until I move the mouse cursor.

Running top I see that 850Mb of memory are used, 0Mb of swap and 10% of CPU. So I understand that there should be no problem...

Does anyone have an idea of why this is happening? Any suggestions on fixing it?

Thank you very much in advance

Have you tried disabling the compositing? Run the following command (from xfce, if KDE's too painful): Then in Desktop > Desktop Effects under the General tab, untick the Enable Desktop Effects box, click apply and then try logging in to KDE again. If things are better, you can leave it as is. Otherwise, it sounds like X isn't using the right driver for your card. What graphics card do you have and which driver is X using?

Thank you very much for the answer. As you suggested, I disabled the Desktop Effects, but still I get the same problem. What I find weird is that if I am moving the cursor everything runs fine.

My graphics card is Intel 945E.
In the xorg.conf file, under
"Device" I find

Driver "intel"
VendorName "Unknown Vendor"
BoardName "Unknown Board"

So if my understanding is correct, then my graphics card is not supported?

Thank you very much again

I think there are options for different intel drivers in /extra that may work better for you.
You could try it out...

Hmmm. I've got a 945G and KDE's fine. I, however, don't have an xorg.conf - I let HAL figure it out for me. Have you tried renaming xorf.conf to xorg.conf.bak and restarting X? Perhaps the autoconfiguration would work better?

Let's see.. have the 945GME chipset, enable_mtrr_cleanup in lilo.conf, no xorg.conf whatsoever and the 2.8.1 intel driver from /extra.
glxgears gives me low fps but I don't care, for video and effects: flawless.

I'll give a try to the other drivers from /extra and see what happens.

Thank you again.

Hi everyone!

I tried the drivers from /extra and nothing changed.

Same problem when running xfce: after 4 seconds everything freezes and continues after I move the mouse.

I tried on this machine also SuSE 11.1 which has KDE 4.1 and everything ran fine.

I guess I'll stick to slackware 12.2 until this issue is resolved.

Thanks

Did you try with no xorg.conf?

Yes. Sorry not to mention earlier