Since upgrading from openSUSE 12.2 to 12.3, the computer waits a long time after booting and before showing the login screen. After the GRUB splash, I see only a black screen and the busy mouse cursor (which I can move around) for almost a minute, before the login screen appears and I can enter my password.
This happens on both my computer and laptop after upgrading them from 12.2 to 12.3. On a computer where I freshly installed 12.3 however, this does not take place. I use KDE so my login manager is KDM. Is this a known problem, and if so is there any safe way to fix the long wait?
Some additional information might help. Paste the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and the outputs of dmesg | less, glxinfo, to suse paste, and then link them here.
Right… the machines where this problem isn’t happening don’t use fglrx. That’s because I don’t play games on them, and the FOSS Radeon driver is too slow where I do. I did reinstall fglrx after upgrading, and I remember that booting with the free driver is fast. Still, fglrx didn’t do this back in 12.2. Perhaps it’s an issue between it and the latest X… prolly means it’s not something I can fix then, just wait for fglrx to fix it :\
KDE 4.10.3 got in the openSUSE-Update repository today, so I installed it and restarted. For the first time since 12.3, the long wait in the login screen was gone. After the splash screen disappeared the login window was instantly visible now. So it appears that today’s KDE update fixes this, though I only tested it once. If I don’t post here again it prolly means it’s solved.