On 04/03/17 11:20, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > On 03/03/17 16:49, Hamid Safe wrote: >> Hello all, >> I was wondering if there is a method to provide a "basic" graphical env >> on Centos7 arm. This is in line with the recent upstream Fedora >> publishing all types with their ver:25. also the fact that Raspbian now >> released a stable graphical env that works out of the box with all the >> goodies. >> My tries no matter what type of graphical env chosen have failed with >> dependencies not met. I have already set up the epel for arm. I know >> that you have gone a long way preparing the Centos7 minimal for the arm >> and it is already awesome, however having a graphical skin particularly >> in arm boards sometimes is a must-have requirement. >> Thanks in advance >> > > Hi, > > I don't think someone/anyone really spent time investigating the whole > chain for a desktop environment on CentOS 7 armhfp. I've myself never > tried even to just see if that would work. The initial goal was to have > "minimal" working, as most users are probably targeting such system. If > now some people would like to spend time investigating what would be > needed, what's still to be built, etc, that can "become a thing" :-) > > Just had 5 minutes to connect a rpi2 to my tft screen and tested the following : yum group install 'Server with GUI' --skip-broken yum install xorg-x11-drv-fbdev.armv7hl xorg-x11-drv-evdev.armv7hl xterm After that , as I was able to get a X environment working with xinit /bin/xterm So I guess it's now a matter of finding a correct GDM/login manager and then something light that can be used ... -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab -------------- 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/20170306/8910ed19/attachment-0006.sig>