On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 23:06, Rick Stevens wrote: > Alberto Cardinalli Jr. wrote: > >>>lwj wrote: > >>> > >>>>On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 13:52, Alberto Cardinalli Jr. wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>Hi all, > >>>>> > >>>>>I know that problems with NVIDIA drivers and other stuff aren't the > >>>>>focus of this list, but I really tried everything that I saw in NVIDIA > >>>>>discussion forum, nothing resolved my problem and NVIDIA don't give us > >>>>>an answer. So I think that someone can help me with some hint. In my > >>>>>machine X startup takes about 30 seconds, but when I had an old kernel > >>>>>and driver versions(nvidia:4496/kernel:2129), it was normal. > >>>>> > >>>>>My machine: > >>>>> > >>>>>Video Card: Riva TNT2 32Mb RAM PCI > >>>>>Driver Version: 1.0-5336 > >>>>>Distribution: Fedora Core 1 (2.4.22-1.2174.nptl) > >>>>>Video Bios Revision: 02.05.19.03.00 > >>>>>Processor: AMD XP2000+ > >>>>>Motherboard: Asus A7V8X > >>>>>Memory: 512Mb DDR400 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>I don't think that this is an issue with the video driver. I am using > >>>>similar card (Riva TNT2 with 32 MB of ram AGP) I am running on a slower > >>>>machine with the same amount of ram and I do not have any problems with > >>>>graphics performance. For 2D drawing I would not expect the AGP/PCI to > >>>>make that much of a difference in the performance. There must be > >>>>something else going on here. > >>> > >>>Is this slow startup invoked from boot or from doing something like > >>>"startx" or "telinit 5"? If it's not from boot, do an "uptime" before > >>>you invoke the command and see if the load is high. You may have some > >>>background process sucking up a lot of resources (updatedb comes to mind > >>>right away). > > > > > > I invoke X using 'startx', i did an uptime and that's my load average: > > 0.41, 0.15, 0.06. > > That's a fairly husky load for a single-user machine. You should do > a "ps -ax", "ps -ef" or "top" and see what's sucking up all that CPU. > > > As I said before, even booting with an older kernel and reinstalling an > > older version of the driver, the problem continues. I've tried > > everything of NVIDIA's FAQ's and forums with no success. I posted a > > question there but they didn't answer. > > This isn't a driver/kernel/whatever problem...you have some process > that's eating up CPU cycles and slowing down the startup. Look at > the first process listed in the "top" report and see why it's using > up all your CPU. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - To err is human, to forgive, beyond the scope of the OS - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > I killed some unused stuff here and this is my uptime: 0.00, 0.08, 0.06 I did "top" and "ps" after the cleanup and everything is OK, no "hunger" process, but "startx" takes the same time. I think I'll try James hint, try older drivers versions until I find one that starts X normally. Thank you all, -- Alberto C. Jr.
