17 Second Boot + 12 Second X Startup

[lieut_data]

Tried Ubuntu for a few days [hours], but was quickly fed up with not having granular control *from the outset*.

So, I'm back in Gentoo on my laptop (stayed on Gentoo on my desktop), and I've pared down my kernel and services to achieve a 17 seconds (or so) cold startup.

However, starting X (just startx, no wm involved) takes an unusual 12 seconds. The screen blanks after running the command, pauses around 10 seconds while initializing, then "blinks" (like a resolution change) and shows me something.

Oddly enough, I didn't notice this in Ubuntu (<5 seconds for X, but like 45+ seconds for kernel + services....), so I know it's a configuration problem and not so much a "my hardware can't do it" issue.

Here are the relevant details, should someone so desire to give a little input

[dmartinsca]

I just tried Ubuntu as well.. it lasted about 3 days, which was longer than OpenSuSE which was horribly clunky.

Anyways, maybe Ubuntu isn't using Xorg 7 yet? I never really checked but since the latest version of Ubuntu was released sometime in october 2005 I would guess it is still xorg-6.8

[lieut_data]

[mbar]

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