From: JimDiamond@jdvb.ca
On 2023-05-02 at 10:41 ADT, Petri Kaukasoina
wrote:
> Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
>
>> 32-bit one
>
>
>>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
>
>>SDDM is *supposed* to be lightweight and fast, but it sure doesn't
>>feel that way to me on the little Sony Vaio ...
>
> I see similar slowness with Slackware64 on a 64-bit Pentium 4 (3.20GHz) with
> 4 GB RAM and Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller.
>
> I don't think SDDM is lightweight. kdm in 14.2 is lightweight and fast. SDDM
> uses direct rendering via opengl, and I guess it expects more than the old
> Intel graphics can deliver. After I remove file /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so,
> sddm behaviour becomes better. Then the llvmpipe software rasterizer does
> the rendering instead of the i915 "amber" hardware driver. And it seems to
> work better...
>
> Even better, move to xdm. Create file /etc/rc.d/rc.4.local with this content:
>
> #
> if [ -x /usr/bin/xdm ]; then
> exec /usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
> fi
>
> And chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.4.local
I agree with Petri, why not use xdm. It is fast, lightweight and
reliable. Unless sddm gives you something you really need or want that xdm
doesn't, I don't see the point.
An alternative to creating the file (as Petri suggests) is to do the
far more satisfying
# removepkg sddm
Jim
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