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 at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev >