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 >>> >>> >> -- >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Arm-dev mailing list >> Arm-dev at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev >> >> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20170216/4df1a9e2/attachment-0006.html>