see F8 X11 -> gdm-greeter time: https://www.harald-hoyer.de/linux/bootcharts/f8-bootchart-3.svg compared to F9 preview: https://www.harald-hoyer.de/linux/bootcharts/f9pre-bootchart-5.png
What hardware is this with? Can you attach the output of 'strace -tt -o /tmp/whatever X -pogo' from the F9 system? This is almost certainly hardware dependent, so I'd like to see what you're slowing down on.
Created attachment 302904 [details] strace output
Hmm, I think its not the X Server itsself. Therefore component xinit, with all that stuff going on in the xinit scripts. Hardware: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_09fc449c-d5a4-4314-a5be-ee69f70e5cb3 Anyway... here is the strace attached.
DDC still takes forever, as expected. You also seem to have a gratuitous sleep(1) in there at the end. Pretty sure that was from the keyboard driver, and should be fixed by now. What version of xorg-x11-drv-keyboard do you have installed?
that was a F9 Preview Live i686... dunno what is on there..
I think that 1s stall was actually a bug between xtrans and libX11. Fixed upstream, gonna update that shortly.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Fixed in libXfont 1.3.3-1.fc10, closing.