Conor O'Reilly wrote: > I am using a 2015 Thinkpad X1 Carbon and am having issues starting X. I > first came across this issue with 5.7 and it persists. I was hoping with > the addition of the Broadwell drivers that it would be corrected however > that is not the case. > > I installed -current snapshot this morning and it takes about 7 minutes to > boot into fvwm or cwm. I have tried openbox, WindowMaker, etc and it is the > same thing. When I finally to get into X, everything works as it should. > Exiting takes a bit longer but I am able to get out by putting > DisplayManager.*.resetSignal: 9 into /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. Subsequent > times after the initial boot are about 5 minutes from startx until I get to > a usable desktop. I have included my dmesg and my Xorg.0.log from this > morning's snapshot. > > Any help with why it takes so long to get into X and how I can fix this > would be greatly appreciated.
several people with the same laptop don't have this problem. don't think it's hardware. this is classic "no DNS" behavior though. X really, really, really wants to know your hostname forwards and backwards and sideways and if it doesn't get what it wants, you get to wait until it does... I'd look into your network config.
