Peter,
many thanks, that helped, sort of. Turns out that
xorg-x11-drv-modesetting is not a good idea. Once removed, I've got X going,
now working on cinnamon / mate for the desktop.
Dave
On 12 Dec 2012, at 12:22, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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