[Arm-dev] vncserver - Re: Working? - Re: Gnome group install

Thu Sep 3 11:03:12 UTC 2015
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

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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