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@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:35 PM, David Rusling <david.rusling@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
