X is slow than I have no Network !

[HelloWorld82]

So, I just installed Gentto the first time one week ago, and I was so happy because it was really easy. really ! everything worked so well!
Yesterday there was no internet connection anymore, but all people who lives here also had no internet connection - fine, that has nothing to do witch gentoo.
I started my computer , typed startx, and than ... I had to wait 5 minutes befor X was here. First the screen was totally black, there was nothing to do, I thought the computer froze ... But after KDE started. (Its not a KDE problem, I deleted .kde* to be sure) Every appicatuon I saterted needed lots of time to start (3-4 miutes) - even a simple xterm. But then it was once started, it was very snappy, I could also work with oppenoffice (after waiting 10 minutes for it to start!!)
I thought something was broken, I recompiled XFree again, but that changed nothing.
Today internet connection came back, and ... Everything work well again. Strange, no ???

I have a radeon 128, and a static IP adress - internet with LAN. my network card is a realtalk 8139
Can someone help me ? I have no idea whats happening, and I also want to be able to work than there is *no* internetconnection availible

HelloWorld82
p.s.: my english is not good

[devon]

X windows tries to do a DNS lookup for your computer's name and eventually times out since your Internet connection is down. I would do a forum search about this problem since it has been asked before. Check out this thread for a recent thread related to this.

You could also startx with the -nolisten tcp option.

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$ startx -- -nolisten tcp

[professorn]

Can't he set 127.0.0.1 to his hostnaem in /etc/hosts and then it will resolve it correctly ?

[daha]

Can't he set 127.0.0.1 to his hostnaem in /etc/hosts and then it will resolve it correctly ?

that won't work, dont know why