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Re: Wayland setup
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Marius Bakke |
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Re: Wayland setup |
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Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:08:39 +0100 |
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Hi Thorsten,
Thorsten Wilms <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi!
>
> I finally got Weston to ... fill my screen with a blocky mess and flood
> STDERR with failure.
>
> To recap:
> - use-modules freedesktop and xorg
> - global packages: xorg-server-xwayland wayland weston %base-packages
> - add "weston-launch" group
> - add user to weston-launch
> - add user to "input" group
> - take care of XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:
>
> export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/${UID}-runtime-dir;
> mkdir "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"
> chmod 0700 "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}
>
> I might just add that to .bash_profile or try to put both that and
> "weston-launch" in a script; rekado suggested this should be a service,
> but the documentation and examples (mainly looking at
> gnu/services/base.scm) leave me puzzled.
Thanks a lot for sharing these forays into Guix' uncharted waters :-)
> The running Weston fills the log with repetitions of:
>
> ---
> radeon: Failed to allocate a buffer:
> radeon: size : 1048576 bytes
> radeon: alignment : 4096 bytes
> radeon: domains : 2
> radeon: flags : 4
> ---
>
> with a few interspersed:
> [17:53:53.145] queueing pageflip failed: Invalid argument
> and
> EE r600_texture.c:1419 r600_texture_transfer_map - failed to create
> temporary texture to hold untiled copy
>
> Meanwhile, weston-launch brings up a functional session on my Ubuntu
> 17.04; it doesn't seem to be a general problem with my graphics card.
This looks like a driver problem. Can you post the output of
"dmesg | grep -w 'drm|r600|radeon'" ?
I seem to recall that hardware acceleration on radeon/amdgpu requires
proprietary microcode, even when using the free driver. Maybe that is
related?
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Re: Wayland setup, Thorsten Wilms, 2018/03/14