On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Francisco Ares <fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to build a minimal Gentoo image for an embedded appliance. > Everything - AFAIK - works good, but I need to key in Ctrl-Alt-F5 / > Ctrl-Alt-F7 a couple of times (F5 is just an example, just have to switch > off of X and back again), just then X shows up. > > I have removed a lot of packages, in special the ones used in development. > GCC is still there, though. > > Any ideas? I know this is hugely vague, but, who knows if someone out there > hasn't gone through this before? > > Thanks! > Francisco
What is the hardware? Are you sure X is starting as quickly as you assume it is? Are you using the software rasterizer? I have experienced similar issues intermittently on my RPi/RPi3 but not regularly enough to diagnose it.