Christian Pernegger wrote: > After an /etc/init.d/xdm start nothing happens for 30-40 seconds, only > then X starts and the gdm login prompt pops up. startx works instantly, > no delay if I use gdm.
grep urandom /etc/X11/xdm/* replace /dev/urandom by /dev/mem not sure if it's a good idea overall but it takes care of the delay. AFAIK urandom waits for some activity to generate random numbers (it was in docs to something or another, I thin ssh) erik