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unlimitedbacon

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Registered: 2012-07-16

Posts: 18

X only works the second time I start it

Hello people,

I have an older PC I mainly use for running XBMC. It has an Nvidia GeForce 6600 graphics card and I'm using the proprietary driver.

My problem is whenever I boot and run startx, the graphics are all absurdly slow. So slow that it takes XBMC several minutes to start and I can see images being drawn line by line. But if I kill X and then startx again, everything works perfectly and it plays HD video no problem.

I'm including the Xorg log files from the first startx after boot (when it runs ridiculously slowly) and the second startx (when it runs normally). The only difference I have found between them is that the second log contains this line and the first one does not.

[   192.890] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 8X

My current workaround is to startx, kill it, and then start it again in my .bash_profile, but I hope someone can figure out a real solution. I'm baffled.

Xorg.0.log.slow
Xorg.0.log.fast

moetunes

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From: A comfortable couch

Registered: 2010-10-09

Posts: 1,033

Re: X only works the second time I start it

I'm thinking it might not be X but xbmc that's having issues. Have you tried starting a window manager instead to see if the problem is with X ?

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unlimitedbacon

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Registered: 2012-07-16

Posts: 18

Re: X only works the second time I start it

It does not seem to be a problem with XBMC. The same thing happens using the following .xinitrc. Top shows glxgears using 100% CPU and it runs at about 2 FPS.

start-pulseaudio-x11
#exec /usr/bin/ck-launch-session /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/xbmc --standalone -fs
exec /usr/bin/ck-launch-session /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/glxgears