I freshly installed Gentoo Linux on a Dell D630 (model with Intel 965, BIOS version A12). Whatever configuration of X.org, including the one generated by X -configure, where the driver is "intel", the start of the server takes a lot of time (perhaps 15 minutes). I try downgrading the drivers from 2.9.1 to 2.8.1. But it did not change anything. Once it is launched it seems to work smoothly. But during the start, X takes 100% of a processor. When I strace it, it floods of calls to to gettimeofday (but perhaps it is normal?) Things work fine with the vesa driver. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: On my machine, any configuration with "intel" was driver in the configuration.
Created attachment 217737 [details] Xorg log Note it looks OK. But from the line: "(II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:E-EDID segment register" registered at address 0x60." Then it outputs one or two lines of log per minute. It goes a bit faster once it selected the initial mode of LVDS. But still quite slow.
I enabled the modesetting by default in the kernel dri module. And it seems to work now, even though it makes my console fb to break.
