KDM takes more as 60 seconds to load!

bassvandijk

When I start KDM it takes approximatley 60 seconds to load.

I know it's not X because "xstart" takes less than a second to load.

When KDM is starting I do see a lot of I/O activity according to my harddrive led.

INFO:
Laptop with a:
Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz
512 MB DDR
GeForce 4 488 Go 64MB
40 GB IBM
XFree86 version 4.3.0
nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx version 4191

Does anybody know how I can speed thins up?
thnx.

Elm0 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 281 Location: UK

I would re-emerge freetype, xft and fontconfig. This solved the problem for me after upgrading to Xfree 4.3.

Is this a new install by the way? If it is you might want to check to see if your hdparm settings are correct (UDMA turned on etc.) Do a search for hdparm for more information on this.

helmers · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 1:27 pm Post subject:

My KDM is a lot slower too(than it was a couple of months ago).

It could be Xfree 4.3, or it could be KDE 3.1. :wink:

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bassvandijk · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 2:00 pm Post subject:

I think Elm0 solution helped!

I downgraded freetype, xft and fontconfig and now KDM takes 5 secs to load instead of 60.

thnx Elm0!!!

(i'm going to boot a few more times to see if it really works.)

mvr_rennes · Apprentice Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 155

xenon · Guru Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 432 Location: Europe

Nah, it's just fontconfig.

Don't know why, but slow KDM -> re-emerge fontconfig -> fast KDM...

TwoTired · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 42

KDM for me took over 60 seconds to load

remerged fontconfig got it to 25-30 seconds

remerge freetype got it to aout 15 seconds

remerge xft - down to about 7 seconds !!!

rogeroberholtzer · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:50 pm Post subject:

I emerged XFree 3 and have this probelm (and all my antialaising died).
The previous Xfree (from a new install of the latest gentoo release) worked fine (so, I ask myself in retrospect, why did I update...)

I have tried all the suggestions (reemerge fontconfig, run fc-cache), but
no help.

X starts fine. The background image (kdm's) is shown, However, there is a black 'box' where the kdm login will be, but no content in it. For many seconds.

If I want to switch to a character login while waiting for the kdm login window to render, the same delay continues before the switch happens. I do notice that just before the switch happens, the kdm window's content is drawn.

???