[fedora-arm] round in circles

David Rusling david.rusling at linaro.org
Wed Dec 12 11:46:16 UTC 2012


Peter,
	thanks, this gave me a clue.   No X installed, no fb driver*.   I get screen now, just no keyboard and mouse action.   Getting there.
Dave

* call me naive but I would thought that installing a desktop such as fxce would have dragged in X?
 
On 12 Dec 2012, at 10:21, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> What does the output from /var/log/Xorg.0.log give you? Can you put
> the details on fpaste.org?
> 
> Peter
> 
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:09 AM, David Rusling
> <david.rusling at linaro.org> wrote:
>> I've installed mate, same problem.   lightdm doesn't start either.   I'm trying to boot to user space.   mate works on F17.  I've installed xfce, but still not enough...
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> On 11 Dec 2012, at 18:38, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:35 PM, David Rusling <david.rusling at linaro.org> wrote:
>>>> Chaps,
>>>> I have tried a number of ways to get F18 up and running on my chromebook.
>>>> All (frustratingly) to no avail*.   In my latest attempt, I took a console
>>>> hard float F18, installed it, frigged with the networking and installed the
>>>> "GNOME desktop environment" group.   I set systemd to boot to a graphical
>>>> environment and gdm doesn't start up properly.   So, could someone either,
>>>> tell me how to fix this or just point me at a reliable F18 graphical build
>>>> that actually works...
>>> 
>>> gnome 3 won't work as we don't have 3D support in the X drivers.
>>> You'll need to use xfce/kde/mate etc.
>>> 
>>> Do you boot through to a console login ie do you actually boot to user space?
>>> 
>>> Peter
>> 



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