I feel like this is a very stupid question, but I have not found
anything more useful after a lot of Googling.

I have a Pi 5 Compute Module, in the official IO shield. So, a tiny
desktop computer with a Wifi antenna.  It has a 32GB onboard eMMC
"SSD" and an nVME slot.

I have bought a cheap used 128GB nVME SSD for the slot, and after many
missteps and mistakes, including mistakenly overwriting the eMMC with
Alpine, I have Alpine 3.21 booting and running from the nVME SSD in
"sys" mode. It can only see my 2.4GHz WLAN not the faster 5GHz wifi
that works fine in Pi OS, but that's a detail.

What is puzzling me is that I've installed Xfce using the
`setup-desktop` script but it won't launch. X11 won't start.

Does X.org work on Alpine on a Pi 5?

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On Sat Mar 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM CET, Liam Proven wrote:
> I feel like this is a very stupid question, but I have not found
> anything more useful after a lot of Googling.
>
> I have a Pi 5 Compute Module, in the official IO shield. So, a tiny
> desktop computer with a Wifi antenna.  It has a 32GB onboard eMMC
> "SSD" and an nVME slot.
>
> I have bought a cheap used 128GB nVME SSD for the slot, and after many
> missteps and mistakes, including mistakenly overwriting the eMMC with
> Alpine, I have Alpine 3.21 booting and running from the nVME SSD in
> "sys" mode. It can only see my 2.4GHz WLAN not the faster 5GHz wifi
> that works fine in Pi OS, but that's a detail.
>
> What is puzzling me is that I've installed Xfce using the
> `setup-desktop` script but it won't launch. X11 won't start.

Last time I had issues with that (on a RPi B) I had to include some
dtoverlay options in /boot/usrconfig.txt. Could you check (eg. with
fastfetch) if any GPU shows up that isn't llvmpipe?

> Does X.org work on Alpine on a Pi 5?

Is there any Xorg log at /var/log?

Pardon the PM, I didn't know I could post here without registering ;)

Copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-v3d.conf from the latest PiOS.  That
worked for me.  Haven't managed to get it working on a 500 though . . .