David Timms wrote:
stan wrote:
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.
Can anyone explain this, and is there an adjustment to speed it up.
Maybe you are using different vga and video modes/resolutions than in
your earlier test {that are less common and scanned for later}, or a
different monitor.
Some monitors seem to change quickly into power save mode, and then
take some time until they can show an image again {especially
For my nvidia fx5600 and dell 1024x768M LCD using nv driver:
To VT takes less than two seconds.
To X takes less than 1 second.
<speculation>
I have noted in the lists continued work on X and auto DPMS/edid etc
monitor improvements. This might mean that the monitor detection is
performed at every change {on your pc/card/monitor}, whereas before a
hard written mode line was in the conf file.
</speculation>
DaveT.
I hadn't rebooted for a few weeks. In the mean time I had run lots of X
programs and many console programs. When I rebooted, the behavior is
similar to the behavior you describe above, and in comparison with the
previous behavior could be described as 'crisp'. I suspect something
has a memory leak, and cruft is building up over time.
Thanks everyone for the responses.
