Re: Wayland setup

[Thorsten Wilms]

On 15.03.2018 02:08, Marius Bakke wrote:
> 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?

Right, thank you!

comparing `dmesg | grep -w 'drm\|r600\|radeo'` from both systems made 
this stand out:
---
radeon 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for /*(DEBLOBBED)*/ failed 
with error -2
[drm:rv770_init [radeon]] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
---

Guess I have to research how to put that back in now, as my level of 
idealism doesn't cover basic functionality falling flat. I understand 
the issues with binary blobs, but from a right-here, right-now 
perspective, what you do here is to cripple a driver (one among many, I 
assume) and let it be a surprise for users if things go belly up.


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