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. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20150903/41cead51/attachment-0006.sig>