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

[Paul R. Ganci]

Here is the link to a thread I started. https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/2017-January/002541.html back in January and judge for yourself. I have been there, experiencing the same issues as you. I loaded up everything X and no go. Note Jim's reply and judge for yourself. Maybe my interpretation is incorrect... I would like to know as I would give CentOS another shot. But nothing I tried could get X to come up.  It would look like it wanted to start and then it just crashed back to the console. 

On February 16, 2017 10:49:44 AM EST, Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org> wrote:
>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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