Peter,
thanks, this gave me a clue. No X installed, no fb driver*. I get screen now, just no
keyboard and mouse action. Getting there.
Dave
* call me naive but I would thought that installing a desktop such as fxce would have
dragged in X?
On 12 Dec 2012, at 10:21, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What does the output from /var/log/Xorg.0.log give you? Can you put
the details on fpaste.org?
Peter
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:09 AM, David Rusling
<david.rusling(a)linaro.org> wrote:
> I've installed mate, same problem. lightdm doesn't start either. I'm
trying to boot to user space. mate works on F17. I've installed xfce, but still not
enough...
>
> Dave
>
> On 11 Dec 2012, at 18:38, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:35 PM, David Rusling <david.rusling(a)linaro.org>
wrote:
>>> Chaps,
>>> I have tried a number of ways to get F18 up and running on my chromebook.
>>> All (frustratingly) to no avail*. In my latest attempt, I took a console
>>> hard float F18, installed it, frigged with the networking and installed the
>>> "GNOME desktop environment" group. I set systemd to boot to a
graphical
>>> environment and gdm doesn't start up properly. So, could someone
either,
>>> tell me how to fix this or just point me at a reliable F18 graphical build
>>> that actually works...
>>
>> gnome 3 won't work as we don't have 3D support in the X drivers.
>> You'll need to use xfce/kde/mate etc.
>>
>> Do you boot through to a console login ie do you actually boot to user space?
>>
>> Peter
>