On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 17:43 -0700, stan wrote: > This has been bugging me for a while. It used to be (years ago) that > the switch from X to a console would be almost instantaneous. Over > the years, it just seems to keep getting longer and longer. Today it > is taking almost 5 seconds to switch to a console. The switch back is > much faster, maybe a second. Can anyone explain this, and is there > an adjustment to speed it up. > > I'm running Fedora 7. Are you still using the same monitor? I get a delay on my system, but I'm sure that's down to the monitor I'm using taking a moment to sync up to the new rate, blanking the screen in the meantime. If I type while the screen isn't showing anything, it's there when the display does come up. My prior monitor was much quicker at resyncing, and I don't recall this issue with it. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.12-52.fc7 i686 i386 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.