From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: t_w_@freenet.de, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Wayland setup
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:08:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3iudu20.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50a9cc52-a43b-ead3-5a6a-291e804a43e2@freenet.de>
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Hi Thorsten,
Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-15 1:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-05 12:59 Wayland setup Thorsten Wilms
2018-03-05 13:47 ` Andreas Enge
2018-03-07 13:06 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-11 17:07 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-03-12 17:19 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-03-12 19:05 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-03-12 20:54 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-03-13 19:50 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-03-13 21:22 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-03-14 21:10 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-03-15 1:08 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2018-03-15 10:29 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-03-15 10:06 ` Thorsten Wilms
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