Glad to be of help. I probably wouldn't bother with cinnamon yet as it, like gnome-shell, needs 3D. "yum install @mate-desktop" should get you MATE or "yum install @xfce-desktop" will get you XFCE.
Peter On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:55 PM, David Rusling <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>>> >>> > _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
