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 <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:46 AM, David Rusling > <david.rusling@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 <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
