On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:22:09AM +0000, Satish Iyer wrote: > Hi, > Whenever I start gnome (by typing gdm on the > command line) it takes a log of time to start up. I > understand that that it reads the configuration file > and then performs various test based on the given > configuration. > I have noticed (from the log) that the number of tests > it performs for the monitor and the display is quite > large. For example, it checks the given hsync and > vert. sync and outputs "Out of range" messages for > quite a number of values in the given range. It > finally comes up with a list of permitted clock > frequencies for the given sceeen resolutions. > I feel that i can perform some optimization here. --snip--
You can reduce some of this by specifying a partucular Modeline in the Monitor section of XF86Config-4. However, I suspect that you won't get much real improvement by optimizing X. Gnome is big and slow and this is probably where the time is used. Before you spend a lot of time optimizimg X, you may want to install a light weight window manager for test purposes. A comparison of startup times might prove illuminating. -- Mark
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