Very slow boot - Xubuntu

[georgetony]

Hi I have a Xubuntu installation and it boots up very slowly. Here is the output from dmesg as attached.

(Sorry, it is not possible paste here since the website says I have pictures in it!)

Would you please tell me what is causing the delay? Thank you.

Best regards,
Tony.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Post your machine's specs here.
Execute this

sudo lspci | grep -i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
free

Post output here.

[georgetony]

Hi and Welcome !

Post your machine's specs here.
Execute this

sudo lspci | grep -i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
free

Post output here.

Hi thank you for your reply. Here are the out puts:

1. sudo lspci | grep -i vga
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]

2. grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Driver "kbd"
Driver "mouse"
Driver "synaptics"

3. free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1423984 499904 924080 0 14592 282996
-/+ buffers/cache: 202316 1221668
Swap: 2996112 0 2996112

[devils casper]

You have to install ATI Proprietary Driver. Which version of Xubuntu are you using? Is there any Hardware Drivers option in Menu?

[georgetony]

Hi I have the driver installed and it is being used. I have configured the xorg.conf via the software came with the driver: aticonfig

The grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf output looks like this:

Driver "kbd"
Driver "mouse"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Driver "fglrx"
Driver "fglrx"

This has been installed from the beginning but when I do a reset of the x server the settings will look like the one I posted above. Sorry for the wrong post.

would you please tell me what does this has to do with the slow boot?

I found that the system hangs for a very long time after the message: Starting MTA

can you please tell me how to stop the MTA from loading in the beginning?

Also what is the problem here:

[ 903.330981] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 903.331007] ata3.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 8 in
[ 903.331010] cdb 25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 903.331014] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 903.331024] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 908.363046] ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 913.339229] ata3: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 913.339241] ata3: soft resetting link
[ 913.863981] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 913.864004] ata3: EH complete
[ 3931.579258] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 3931.579288] ata3.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 8 in
[ 3931.579291] cdb 25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3931.579295] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3931.579304] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3936.610204] ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 3941.590370] ata3: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 3941.590379] ata3: soft resetting link
[ 3942.114148] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 3942.114183] ata3: EH complete


thank you for your help.

cheers,
Tony.