Hi, there is currently a lot of hype around running Gnome on a smartphone which seems to need new hardware to be possible.
This made me curious. Therefore I took a fresh µSD card and did run on some Linux SBC with additional card reader: DEV=/dev/sdb ./makesd gta04 -v 20171013-stretch-9.1-armhf -r debian Next, I patched in the latest 4.14-rc6 kernel. This step might not be necessary since the 4.13.x installed by makesd is equally good. Then I booted the GTA04 with this µSD and after setting up ethernet over usb (g_ether) so that the GTA04 has access to the Internet I could do apt-get update apt-get install gnome-core It did take a while (installed ca. 1.5 GB on the µSD) but did not fail. After rebooting the GTA04 (I needed a second attempt for unknown reasons), I didn't see a Gnome desktop, but at least some Gnome related processes are running: ... root 2259 1 0 17:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/iio-sensor-proxy root 2361 1 0 17:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D root 2371 1 0 17:17 ttyO2 00:00:00 /bin/login -- root 2387 1 0 17:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm3 ntp 2396 1 0 17:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -u 105:109 root 2438 1 0 17:17 ? 00:00:00 /lib/systemd/systemd --user root 2440 2438 0 17:17 ? 00:00:00 (sd-pam) root 2444 2371 0 17:17 ttyO2 00:00:00 -bash root 2450 1 0 17:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/upower/upowerd root 2598 2 0 17:18 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/u2:3] root 2931 2387 3 17:19 ? 00:00:00 gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-launch-environment] Debian-+ 2941 1 8 17:19 ? 00:00:00 /lib/systemd/systemd --user Debian-+ 2942 2941 0 17:19 ? 00:00:00 (sd-pam) Debian-+ 2946 2931 1 17:19 tty1 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-wayland-session gnome-session --autostart /usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart Debian-+ 2948 2941 2 17:19 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation Debian-+ 2950 2946 8 17:19 tty1 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gnome-session/gnome-session-binary --autostart /usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart Debian-+ 2958 2950 99 17:19 tty1 00:00:03 /usr/bin/gnome-shell root 2963 2444 0 17:19 ttyO2 00:00:00 ps -ef root@letux:~# These processes seem to fail after a while and new ones are respawned (process ID becomes higher). Maybe this is just a setup issue (missing definition which display should be used or something alike). If someone has an idea and is experienced in debugging Wayland, gnome and systemd, please try and let us know. Then we can fix the installation and make pictures... If I had a compatible PAL or NTSC monitor, I could even try to connect a keyboard in USB mode and have "a full desktop on the smartphone" without waiting another year. And if we ever build a Pyra-Phone, this same exercise will run there (we just have to choose a different MLO & U-Boot in the makesd command). And we would get HDMI output for the monitor. BR, Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@tinkerphones.org http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org