slow kdm/kde application launch after x server upgrade

[sante]

Hi all,
i installed knoppix 3.4 on my laptop (acer travelmate 212TXR). Everything was working fine till last nigth.
I did an apt-get upgrade from unstable and got a new xfree version (4.3.0.dfsg.1-2).
From then on, kdm and kde startup became very slow.
Once i get into kde, every application i try to launch take 4/5 times more than usual to start. When they are finally ready i can use'em without problem.
Any idea about how to fix it?

TIA

Sante

Here's my lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1621 (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
0000:00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3)
0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU
0000:00:13.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6812 Cardbus Controller (rev 05)
0000:00:14.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 5d)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Abocom Systems Inc ADMtek Centaur-C rev 17 [D-Link DFE-680TX] CardBus Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev 11)

my lsmod:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
parport_pc 24840 1 (autoclean)
lp 7460 0 (autoclean)
parport 22496 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
reiserfs 169616 1 (autoclean)
md 42848 0 (autoclean) (unused)
autofs4 8756 1
af_packet 13544 1
nls_iso8859-1 2844 0 (unused)
nls_cp437 4348 0 (unused)
agpgart 42660 0 (unused)
trident 29236 3
ac97_codec 11884 0 [trident]
soundcore 3428 2 [trident]
pcigame 1448 0 [trident]
gameport 1388 0 [pcigame]
serial 52068 0
tulip 38848 1
crc32 2816 0 [tulip]
ds 6536 1
yenta_socket 9504 1
pcmcia_core 39840 0 [ds yenta_socket]
thermal 6532 0 (unused)
processor 8976 0 [thermal]
fan 1568 0 (unused)
button 2508 0 (unused)
battery 5888 0 (unused)
ac 1792 0 (unused)
ieee1394 183300 0 (unused)
usb-storage 61952 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 18088 0 (unused)
usbcore 57824 1 [usb-storage usb-ohci]
ataraid 6404 0 (unused)
ide-cd 28704 0
ide-scsi 9040 0
rtc 7004 0 (autoclean)
ext3 64452 2 (autoclean)
jbd 46516 2 (autoclean) [ext3]

[Durand Hicks]

I don't think you're alone in noticing this. I noticed it as well, and wound up reinstalling xfree86 (savage branch) from dri.sourceforge.net. The last version of xfree86 was IMO, much better, but since you've upgraded, your options are: compile and overwrite the xfree86 installation with one from dri.sourceforge.net (xfree86 4.3.99), or xfree86 4.4.0 from xfree86.org, or downgrade to the one from stable (xfree86 4.1.0) or leave it as it is and wait for an upgrade to filter down into the debian repositories. Since it's your installation, it's your choice as to what you want to do.

[sante]

It seems that the solution was quite simple (it worked for me, at least):
fc-cache -f
I found it out in a post from debian-user mailing list (thanks to Joan Tur)

[rmaniac]

It seems that the solution was quite simple (it worked for me, at least):
fc-cache -f
I found it out in a post from debian-user mailing list (thanks to Joan Tur)

It also works for KDE-Cygwin. Thanks

[sippe]

... perhaps anyone can tell this the debian XFree86-maintainer to add this fix in his package.
i noticed this "slow start"-problem several times from update to update ...


regards.