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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:16:36 +0000
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From: "Sertonix" <sertonix@posteo.net>
To: "Liam Proven" <lproven@gmail.com>, <~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org>
Subject: Re: X.org on Raspberry 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?