On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:46 AM, David Rusling
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

You would have thought so!

Try "yum groupinstall "Basic X Window System"

Peter


> On 12 Dec 2012, at 10:21, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> 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
>> <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:35 PM, David Rusling <[email protected]> 
>>>> 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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