[Arm-dev] Looking for PI3 version that can do X windows

[Gordan Bobic]

That can't be right. We have Xorg working just fine in RedSleeve, which is
essentially an armv5tel port of CentOS.
I certainly have Xorg with KDE working on my Chromebook running RSEL7.

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Paul R. Ganci <ganci at nurdog.com> wrote:

> There is no version of X that works on CentOS. What is there is incomplete
> from what I can tell. In part I believe that is due to bugs in the upstream
> drivers if I understand Jim Perrin correctly. I spent days trying to get X
> and gave up. I tried using a version of Fedora with Mate which worked but
> was buggy. As much as I didn't want to do it, I ended up using the latest
> version of Raspbian which comes with Pixel and works great. I had other
> reasons such as the newest Raspbian makes it easy to switch the PI3 serial
> port behavior back to what is was for the PI2. Important if you wish to use
> one of the GPS hats.
>
> On February 16, 2017 9:58:39 AM EST, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> >At a glance, it looks like Xorg couldn't probe either the fbdev or
>> >modesetting drivers. Do you get a grey Xorg screen if you just run "X"?
>> >(exit with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace if it starts).
>> >You may need to set up a basic xorg.conf with the driver and modelines
>> >explicitly listed.
>>
>> hi Gordan,
>>
>> I get nothing, startx just exist with the error.
>> Xorg -configure  exist with the same error.
>>
>> I seem stuck
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
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