It's not although AMDs groveling before MS and the world makes me wonder. Try $ startx >$HOME/startx.log 2>&1 [RET]
and see what's in the log file Jim Tarvid On Sunday 01 December 2002 10:14 pm, you wrote: > I've just installed Mdk 9.0 on an Athlon XP 1600+ 1.4 ghz machine. When > I fired up X it took hela long (like 5 min!) for it to start. I tried > everything I could think of and then eventually installed Mdk 8.2 > overtop of it as an experiment. Sure enough, X is just as slow in 8.2 > as it is in 9.0. I've set the system so that it has a whole Gig of space > for swap so I don't think that this is the problem. My video card is an > AGP Vodoo 3 2000 and it has worked fine on other machines running Mandrake. > > Now I've never owned an Athlon XP processor before and my greatest fear > is that it is a Win-processor similar to other monopoly-ware fomented by > M$ such as Win-printers and Win-modems. Say it aint so, because if it > is, it means that the only way I can fix this is to get a hammer and > make sure nobody else gets screwed by this particular processor. I'll > do it too.
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