On Sunday 29 January 2006 13:14, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > remove those files from user directory; I removed, even I tried with a new user, the problem is the same
> maybe .xsession-errors has some interesting info; Yes, it's interesting, but no .xsession-errors exists. Previous gentoo had it. > my experience with slow KDE has been when /etc/fonts/ contents could be? KDE set it's font configuration from xorg.conf, doesn't? >... also i would check is DMA enabled linfinite kmarc # hdparm /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 3 (32-bit w/sync) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 64 (on) geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 120060444672, start = 0 So, sorry if I'd asked badly, but I think you misunderstand me... :-$ Programs that don't use KDE (gftp, firefox, bittorrent, gtk-demo) run up fast, and fast, even also openoffice.org. I think, there is a problem with the dcop interface, the communication between some KDE apps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list