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> > > Why does it take so long for jwm to load?
> > > About 10-15 sec at 600MHz.
> >
> > Are you sure jwm is the issue?  I've found that
> > on some hardware Xvesa takes 10-15 seconds to
> > load while on other (slower) hardware it loads
> > immediately.  Xvesa seems to have some trouble
> > getting hooked into the right VESA mode and/or
> > choosing the right mouse driver.  It could also
> > be that a loadlin boot has left some DOS garbage
> > that Xvesa has to work around.

It has been taking 20 sec to unload jwm on a Matrox, after starting it 
from fstab in vt1 with -sc startx.  Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.  Not the mouse.


> > Cheers,
> > Steven
>
> 10-15 seconds on a Matrox Millenium (PS/2 3-button trackball, instant on
> an Nvidia Riva (serial mouse) both PCI cards.  Loadlin in both cases.
> Probably both himem.sys and emm386 and no DOS mouse driver.
>
> I will try serial mouse with the Matrox.
>
> Sindi
>
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