From: chris@mshome.net   
      
   On 01/05/2023 07:30, Sylvain Robitaille wrote:   
   > Ok, so I'm becoming a very late adopter.  Attribute that to how well   
   > Slackware-14.2 has worked for me over the years.   
   >   
   > I've only recently started installing Slackware 15.0 on systems: two   
   > laptops so far; One 32-bit and one 64-bit.  Of those I've actually   
   > started to configure and use the 32-bit one so far.  And for the   
   > most part, that is working rather well.  The system itself is not at   
   > all hefty: it's an older Sony Vaio "netbook" computer (essentially   
   > a small laptop), with 2GB of memory (upgraded from 1GB at the same   
   > time that I updated the OS from Slackware-14.2).  CPU is "Intel(R)   
   > Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz", so this is not the computer that will   
   > do any sort of intensive computing, but it's quite adequate for how   
   > I use it (and its compact size is rather important in that context).   
   >   
   > What I'm finding, though, is that the display manager (SDDM) is   
   > excruciatingly slow to "wake up" and present the password prompt,   
   > and even when that becomes "visible" it will redraw it a couple of   
   > times before actually responding to entered keystrokes.  Once logged   
   > in (or the screen locker unlocked) the system's response seems quite   
   > normal (in fact, I'd argue "faster" with Slackware-15.0 than it was   
   > with Slackware-14.2, but I did add memory as noted above, and replaced   
   > the spinning rust hard drive with an SSD).   
   >   
   > I have not yet gotten as far in setting up the other laptop with   
   > Slackware64-15.0, so I'm still at the CLI on that one, and I don't   
   > know if SDDM on that system (an HP Elitebook with 4 x Intel(R) Core(TM)   
   > i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz and 8GB of RAM) will exhibit similar behaviour,   
   > though I'm expecting it to at least be "better", given the more capable   
   > hardware.   
   >   
   > SDDM is *supposed* to be lightweight and fast, but it sure doesn't   
   > feel that way to me on the little Sony Vaio ...   
   >   
   > I wonder if anyone else has seen this sort of thing with SDDM and has   
   > found a solution.  All the searches I've done so far have pointed to   
   > missing haveged as the culprit, but this system has haveged, with its   
   > stock configuration as provided by Slackware.  If there's something   
   > else that I should be looking at, I'd very much appreciate a pointer   
   > or two.  Thanks in advance.   
   >   
      
   I recently installed 32-bit 15 on an old Pentium M 2Gb 200Gb using PXE   
   and Slackware on a USB stick. The machine won't boot directly from USB.   
      
   Using runlevel 4 just results in a blank screen (no login prompt),   
   requiring a reboot. This happens with sddm.conf using autologin too.   
   Runlevel 3 allows me to log in at the command line, so I put:   
   [[ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]] && startx   
   at the end of .bashrc, which works for me.   
   I can't be bothered trying to fix sddm.   
      
      
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   Chris Elvidge   
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