Re: [PATCH 0/4] Mesa and Wayland updates

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:52:07AM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 31 May 2013 10:30, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com> wrote:
> >> At the time of writing that weston didn't support runtime detection or config files entries for selecting the backend, only commandline arguments. So whatever is getting picked at build time, you're stuck with that. Does 1.1.x address that situation?
> >
> > Sadly, not as far as I'm aware.  I have 1.1 in another branch but it
> > totally broke GTK+ 3 applications (which didn't repaint after the
> > initial creation), which is pretty sad.  Relevant developers harassed.
> 
> In a massive shock, the weston man page is actually useful.  Sadly
> it's clear that the backend choice is either x11 if DISPLAY is set,
> wayland-over-wayland if WAYLAND_DISPLAY is set, otherwise the command
> line argument finally falling back to the "default" (drm out of the
> box).
> 
> So if we want a single binary that supports both DRM and fbdev, then
> we need to use command-line options.   I guess our startup script
> should handle this and we can add another optional machine-specific
> config file.

Is x11 backend working for you (e.g. in qemux86-64)?

I'm testing it with core-image-weston and modified mesa (to allow
llvmpipe) and with -Bx11-backend.so added to /etc/init.d/weston:

root@qemux86-64:~# /etc/init.d/weston start
Date: 2013-06-05 UTC
[13:47:50.300] weston 1.1.0
               http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
               Bug reports to:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wayland&component=weston&version=1.1.0
               Build:  
[13:47:50.308] OS: Linux, 3.8.13-yocto-standard, #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun
4 22:29:53 CEST 2013, x86_64
[13:47:50.311] Loading module '/usr/lib/weston/x11-backend.so'
[13:47:50.317] initializing x11 backend
[13:47:50.318] fatal: failed to create compositor

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