[gentoo-user] switching to graphics mode tty extremely slow

[gentoo-user] switching to graphics mode tty extremely slow

[Daniel D Jones]

My system is extremely slow to switch back to a graphical TTY.  I'm not 
talking about X starting up but just switching TTYs.  For example, if I'm 
sitting at the KDM login screen and I hit CTL-ALT-F2 and switch to a text 
mode TTY, it takes only a second to get a login prompt.  When I hit 
CTL-ALT-F7 to switch back to graphical mode, the screen goes black and it 
takes 25 to 30 seconds before I see the KDM login screen again.  I certainly 
don't recall this process taking this long in the past.  Is it normal?

Running KDE 3.5 on an ATI Radeon 9600 with the open source drivers.

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Re: [gentoo-user] switching to graphics mode tty extremely slow

[Benno Schulenberg]

Daniel D Jones wrote:
> My system is extremely slow to switch back to a graphical TTY.

Since when?

> When I hit CTL-ALT-F7 to switch back to
> graphical mode, the screen goes black and it takes 25 to 30
> seconds before I see the KDM login screen again.  I certainly
> don't recall this process taking this long in the past.  Is it
> normal?

No, that's not normal.  I vaguely remember having seen this too some 
time ago.  It might have been a bug in some version of KDE.

> Running KDE 3.5

What version precisely?  See output of 'emerge -pq kdelibs'.  Here:
[ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.6-r6

> on an ATI Radeon 9600 with the open source drivers.

When did you last upgrade xf86-video-ati?

Benno
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Re: [gentoo-user] switching to graphics mode tty extremely slow

[Benno Schulenberg]

Daniel D Jones wrote:
> 3.5.5-r10

Yes, might have been the one with the problem.  If the thirty second 
pause bothers you, push on to 3.5.6.  But as you seldom use a bare 
console, you can probably stand the wait for it going stable.  :)

Benno
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