Comment 62 for bug 151544

That is not true. This is not a problem with nvidia.

I think let us stop beating around the bush and concentrate on the problem.
It was never a problem in Feisty. What has changed since October end is
Ubuntu. I have had the same laptop since October 2006 and have been running
Dapper, Edgy and Feisty with no issues whatsoever. It is only Gutsy that is
the problem.

So for goddamned sure. IT IS A PROBLEM WITH ONLY AND ONLY UBUNTU AND NO
OTHER DEVICE OR OBJECT AROUND. It is really disappointing to see two
phenomena here:

1. Ubuntu support is not taking enough action on this bug. This should be a
priority. It is a shame to the Ubuntu makers that they can't give an
important bug its rightful place.
2. They are simply beating around the bush to try to transfer the blame to
someone else. It is the kernel that is the culprit. The 386 kernel is very
very slow and I find that the generic kernel is not very much improved
either. The older kernel 2.6.17 or 2.6.20 were way better. Even now, if you
try using those kernels, GNOME loads fast.

Clearly it is a problem with the kernel. It is the haughtiness of the kernel
writers that they fail to recognized the problem and fix it. When Ubuntu has
almost no market share as against Microsoft, these guys act so pricey and
all as if they know everything about the problem and keep throwing the blame
from one to another. I have no doubt that they can NEVER EVER stand
Microsoft's competition, if things go down the path of ruin in this manner.

There is NOTHING (I wish I could write in bigger letters to make it clear)
significantly useful added in Gutsy at all. Why did they make this release?
Most people have gone back to Feisty. I don't want Compiz or any other
BULLSHIT - what I want is a fast useful machine.

Balaji

On Nov 29, 2007 12:29 AM, Ricardo Pérez López <email address hidden> wrote:

> My Gutsy desktop takes ~34 secs to fully load GNOME. The Feisty machines
> in my classroom (I'm a computer science teacher) takes ~12 secs to fully
> load GNOME, and these machines are significantly slower than my home
> desktop computer. Other Gutsy machines in the High School takes 25-30
> secs.
>
> IMHO, this is a very annoying bug, and, after a brief investigation, I
> think the problem only appears in machines with NVIDIA graphics cards.
>
> Maybe a compiz - nvidia interaction?
>
> --
> [Gutsy] GNOME takes too much time to load during system boot
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151544
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Balaji