On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 at 09:02, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm trying to get Fedora working on my Raspberry Pi 3b+, and have some > > questions/issues I don't see addressed in the docs. First off, for this > > hardware, should I be using the aarch64 or armhfp images? I've been trying > > with aarch64 and that boots, but just wanted to doublecheck. Second, is it > > possible to get Gnome running? The "hardware status" wiki page says XFce is > > recommended, but it's not clear whether that means Gnome won't work, or if > > it's just not recommended. I tried the Workstation image and the firstboot > > wizard runs successfully, but then when attempting to login, gnome-shell > > crashes after chugging for a couple minutes and dumps me back at the gdm > > login screen. I tried adding 'cma=192M' to kernel args as suggested on the > > wiki, but no change. > > You should use aarch64, we're retiring armhfp post F-36. The problem > with GNOME is that you need to allocate 256Mb of RAM for the GPU for > it to work and then remaining ~768Mb doesn't give you a lot of space > to run an OS and app. Given those constraints it works to some > definition of "work". > > > If the answer turns out to be the Gnome isn't going to work and I have to > > go with Xfce, I don't see an Xfce spin built for aarch64, only armhfp, is > > that correct? Is that what I should be using? > > There is XFCE for aarch64.
One option is to try and use the server edition which I believe installs no Desktop Environment,: https://getfedora.org/en/server/download/ And install via: sudo dnf groupinstall "Xfce Desktop" Gnome 3 does work reasonably well on rpi4, but as of now I'm not sure that's on Fedora's officially supported list. > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list -- arm@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to arm-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to arm-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure