From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25994 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Jan 2003 13:12:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 9938 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2003 13:12:51 -0000 From: Reply-To: viktor@lakics.net To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:10:21 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20030107131021.ZUUR22267.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@[10.137.100.61]> Subject: [gentoo-dev] My take on prelink X-Archives-Salt: 6eeb5f3c-7758-4a5f-88d4-6ff5009f26d3 X-Archives-Hash: a05d72336718e4a084146e987d5e3010 Dear Devs, I was very excited about prelink, since on my Athlon 1800 XP machine with 512 DDR, KDE startup times still bother me...(I guess the faster machine you have the more you expect:-)) So I looked at the (otherwise clear and well written) prelink guide. I was very unhappy with what I found there: In the era of fast PC-s, one only need to have a couple of programs prelinked: to me this is kde (konqi mainly but others as well), wine, winex and probably (if prelink would help it) openoffice...(I do not run gnome). All the rest of my programs startup like flash, so there is no practical advantage to prelink them time to time... Those of you familiar with the prelinking guide already figured where I am getting at: - wine and winex cannot be prelinked (yet) - since I have nvidia graphics, all my kde stuff is linked to that so I cannot prelink any KDE apps... Yes, I could switch to nv driver, but then I would loose my TV-out for watching dvds, and I cannot start any movie in fullscreen with xvideo under mplayer (trust me I tried hard) not to mention games... Is there any hope to remedy these problems? How other distros handle the nvidia probs? Red hat and mandrake supposedly prelinked, and they use nvidia rpms... What about wine? Even running calc.exe can take a good ten seconds to start up... It is not supposed to be a flame just wrote this in the hope that someone might be able to help... Cheers: Viktor -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list