Subject: X.org on Raspberry Pi 5

From: Liam Proven <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:28:58 +0000

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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From: "Sertonix" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:16:36 +0000

> `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?

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From: Donoban <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:29:23 +0100

Is there any Xorg log at /var/log?

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From: Ian Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:36:13 +0000

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 . . .