So on my Cubieboard2 image I did
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop"
After some 800+ packages installed I rebooted.
serial console is working and I am logged into it.
But the monitor is showing just a grey screen with a mouse. No login.
After 17 min, the gnome login screen came up and I did the login. Now waiting for the desktop...
config portion came up after 22 min....
25 min and I am looking at the Gnome desktop. Oh boy. And from the serial console:
[ 1163.786222] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20 [ 1163.790175] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 1163.794729] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 1163.807801] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 1163.812808] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 1163.818119] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 1163.848426] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 1163.853809] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 1163.861845] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
There is no bluetooth on a C2...
# free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1018036 282404 244260 20400 491372 688444 Swap: 1048572 0 1048572
I am changing to:
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
then i will install vncserver.
On 09/02/2015 03:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
So on my Cubieboard2 image I did
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop"
After some 800+ packages installed I rebooted.
serial console is working and I am logged into it.
But the monitor is showing just a grey screen with a mouse. No login.
Arm-dev mailing list Arm-dev@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
So I changed the target to multiuser, installed tigervnc-server, did what I needed to get the service running for my user and vnced in.
PAINFULL. Not in memory, but in cpu. I managed to get a terminal window open on the desktop, and any time I would type in a command I had to wait for a while before it showed in the termnal window and executed. I ran top on the serial console, and I was seeing gnome spike about 150% cpu utilization.
THUS IMHO:
Gnome desktop is not practical on an Allwinner A20 cpu. It is not a memory issue, but cpu. I think it is also the video rendering.
Perhaps someone wants to try out KDE. I do not.
I again vote for Xfce as an available desktop. It works on arm.
Perhaps the upcoming Cubietruck Plus with the new Allwinner quad chip will work. But I want something that works on the A20.
On 09/02/2015 03:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
After 17 min, the gnome login screen came up and I did the login. Now waiting for the desktop...
config portion came up after 22 min....
25 min and I am looking at the Gnome desktop. Oh boy. And from the serial console:
[ 1163.786222] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20 [ 1163.790175] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 1163.794729] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 1163.807801] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 1163.812808] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 1163.818119] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 1163.848426] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 1163.853809] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 1163.861845] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
There is no bluetooth on a C2...
# free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1018036 282404 244260 20400 491372 688444 Swap: 1048572 0 1048572
I am changing to:
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
then i will install vncserver.
On 09/02/2015 03:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
So on my Cubieboard2 image I did
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop"
After some 800+ packages installed I rebooted.
serial console is working and I am logged into it.
But the monitor is showing just a grey screen with a mouse. No login.
Arm-dev mailing list Arm-dev@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
Arm-dev mailing list Arm-dev@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
On 09/02/2015 04:00 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
So I changed the target to multiuser, installed tigervnc-server, did what I needed to get the service running for my user and vnced in.
PAINFULL. Not in memory, but in cpu. I managed to get a terminal window open on the desktop, and any time I would type in a command I had to wait for a while before it showed in the termnal window and executed. I ran top on the serial console, and I was seeing gnome spike about 150% cpu utilization.
THUS IMHO:
Gnome desktop is not practical on an Allwinner A20 cpu. It is not a memory issue, but cpu. I think it is also the video rendering.
Perhaps someone wants to try out KDE. I do not.
I again vote for Xfce as an available desktop. It works on arm.
Perhaps the upcoming Cubietruck Plus with the new Allwinner quad chip will work. But I want something that works on the A20.
I agree that gnome is worthless on those boards .. not enough horsepower on the GPU/CPU combo for that.
KDE does not work yet .. more things still need to be built.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
On 09/02/2015 03:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
After 17 min, the gnome login screen came up and I did the login. Now waiting for the desktop...
config portion came up after 22 min....
25 min and I am looking at the Gnome desktop. Oh boy. And from the serial console:
[ 1163.786222] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20 [ 1163.790175] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 1163.794729] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 1163.807801] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 1163.812808] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 1163.818119] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 1163.848426] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 1163.853809] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 1163.861845] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
There is no bluetooth on a C2...
# free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1018036 282404 244260 20400 491372 688444 Swap: 1048572 0 1048572
I am changing to:
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
then i will install vncserver.
On 09/02/2015 03:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
So on my Cubieboard2 image I did
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop"
After some 800+ packages installed I rebooted.
serial console is working and I am logged into it.
But the monitor is showing just a grey screen with a mouse. No login.
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This isn't a CPU shortage problem, an A20 has plenty of CPU to run Gnome, KDE or any other window manager; you must be having another problem that merely manifest as a process eating all the CPU. What process(es) are consuming all the CPU? Are any logs being flooded with a repeating error message?
Gordan
On 02/09/15 20:45, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
After 17 min, the gnome login screen came up and I did the login. Now waiting for the desktop...
config portion came up after 22 min....
25 min and I am looking at the Gnome desktop. Oh boy. And from the serial console:
[ 1163.786222] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20 [ 1163.790175] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 1163.794729] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 1163.807801] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 1163.812808] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 1163.818119] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 1163.848426] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 1163.853809] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 1163.861845] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
There is no bluetooth on a C2...
# free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1018036 282404 244260 20400 491372 688444 Swap: 1048572 0 1048572
I am changing to:
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
then i will install vncserver.
On 09/02/2015 03:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
So on my Cubieboard2 image I did
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop"
After some 800+ packages installed I rebooted.
serial console is working and I am logged into it.
But the monitor is showing just a grey screen with a mouse. No login.
Arm-dev mailing list Arm-dev@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
Arm-dev mailing list Arm-dev@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
I would have to boot up that image again, but top only showed one process taking up all the cpu. gnome-somethingorother
On 09/03/2015 07:07 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
This isn't a CPU shortage problem, an A20 has plenty of CPU to run Gnome, KDE or any other window manager; you must be having another problem that merely manifest as a process eating all the CPU. What process(es) are consuming all the CPU? Are any logs being flooded with a repeating error message?
Gordan
On 02/09/15 20:45, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
After 17 min, the gnome login screen came up and I did the login. Now waiting for the desktop...
config portion came up after 22 min....
25 min and I am looking at the Gnome desktop. Oh boy. And from the serial console:
[ 1163.786222] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20 [ 1163.790175] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 1163.794729] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 1163.807801] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 1163.812808] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 1163.818119] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 1163.848426] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 1163.853809] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 1163.861845] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
There is no bluetooth on a C2...
# free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1018036 282404 244260 20400 491372 688444 Swap: 1048572 0 1048572
I am changing to:
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
then i will install vncserver.
On 09/02/2015 03:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
So on my Cubieboard2 image I did
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop"
After some 800+ packages installed I rebooted.
serial console is working and I am logged into it.
But the monitor is showing just a grey screen with a mouse. No login.
Arm-dev mailing list Arm-dev@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
Arm-dev mailing list Arm-dev@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
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Just thinking here...
I ran my gnome test off of a mSD install. It could be much of that time was slow I/O. I will set up a HD test to compare.
On 09/03/2015 07:07 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
This isn't a CPU shortage problem, an A20 has plenty of CPU to run Gnome, KDE or any other window manager; you must be having another problem that merely manifest as a process eating all the CPU. What process(es) are consuming all the CPU? Are any logs being flooded with a repeating error message?
Gordan
On 02/09/15 20:45, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
After 17 min, the gnome login screen came up and I did the login. Now waiting for the desktop...
config portion came up after 22 min....
25 min and I am looking at the Gnome desktop. Oh boy. And from the serial console:
[ 1163.786222] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20 [ 1163.790175] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 1163.794729] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 1163.807801] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 1163.812808] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 1163.818119] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 1163.848426] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 1163.853809] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 1163.861845] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
There is no bluetooth on a C2...
# free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1018036 282404 244260 20400 491372 688444 Swap: 1048572 0 1048572
I am changing to:
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
then i will install vncserver.
On 09/02/2015 03:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
So on my Cubieboard2 image I did
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop"
After some 800+ packages installed I rebooted.
serial console is working and I am logged into it.
But the monitor is showing just a grey screen with a mouse. No login.
Arm-dev mailing list Arm-dev@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
Arm-dev mailing list Arm-dev@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
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