Craig White wrote:
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 20:29 -0700, Jon D. Slater wrote:
Claude Jones wrote:
On Sun December 18 2005 8:18 pm, Jon D. Slater wrote:
Any ideas what's up?
I doubt this is it, but I'll offer it because I just spent two days fighting
the exact same problem on a fresh install of a different distro. The problem
- it turned out that NDISwrapper was my culprit. I don't have all the issues
fleshed out, yet, but, I throw this out since our similar events are so
coincidental. In my case, I had NDISwrapper on my laptop to get my broadcom
wireless to be able to use its Windows driver - when I configured it, I had
it set to start on boot, and that's what threw it. It spent a huge amount of
time trying to start wlan0 and was unable to (for reasons I'm still trying to
understand), and that hogged all my system's resources - boot time slowed to
about 15 minutes
My boot time if fine. And X starts fine too (I get my login screen
within a couple of minutes of booting).
The problem starts as soon as I enter my login and password, then
press enter.
My disk access light comes on solid, and it takes 15 minutes to
complete start my session.
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go to a virtual console and watch top...
<control><alt><F2>
login as root
run 'top'
<alt><F7> # return to GUI
login as normal
<control><alt><F2>
see which process is using up the CPU
Craig
Never mind... My bad...
Earlier today I had to replace a really LOUD cooling fan. And I must
have bumped my SDRAM.
So, it was trying to run X with only 64 Meg of memory.
I re-seated my memory, and now it's all "visible" again, and my speed
is back.
Thank for all of you who posted suggestions!
Jon
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