on one of my machines i killed kdm and x, and rm'ed everything in /tmp, now it starts in about 2sec, was about 26 before that, on my other machine i reemerged fontconfig and the startup time there went from 32 to alsa about 2sec
so both solutions given seem to fix the problem ... (the 2 boxes are identical in installed versions, just diffrend hardware, xp 2000, p3 650) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
