Gnome on Raspberry Pi not working

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Gnome on Raspberry Pi not working

Postby Raspberrygamma » Sun Feb 17, 2013 12:20 pm

hi There!

First of all, I'm sorry if my english isn't to good, I'm no native speaker but I'll give my best;)

I have problems bringing gnome to work on my raspberry Pi. I do the following on totally new arch linux image:

1.) Set the language and Keymap

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'echo LANG=de_CH.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
echo KEYMAP=sg-latin1 > /etc/vconsole.conf
rm /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich /etc/localtime
nano /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen')

2.) System update
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -Syu')

3.) Enable Swap
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'fallocate -l 512M /swapfile
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile')

4.) Install driver
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev')

5.) Install Xorg
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -S xorg xorg-xinit xorg-twm xterm')

5.) Install gnome
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -S gnome')

6.) edit .xinitrc
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', ' exec gnome-session')

After that, I try to start a gnome session by "startx"-command.
After that, it takes a long time (of about 1 minute) and the message "oh oh, a problem occured" is displayed.
What am i doing wrong?
I'd be very sad if I couldn't get gnome to work, because I like it very much

Best regards

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Re: Gnome on Raspberry Pi not working

Postby moonman » Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:57 pm

gnome is way too heavy for raspberry pi. Imagine Running gnome on Pentium II 300 MHz without any kind of hardware acceleration (even 2D) in X. I'll see if I can get it to work, but as I said if you get it to run, likely you won't be satisfied with the performance.
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