Wayland Weston

[Bernard Mentink]

Thanks,

I was looking for the kernel module called i915kms, as I thought that was
the DRM version .... guess I was looking in the wrong place :)

I will try the standard i915 module. Cheers.

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Imre Vadasz <imre at vdsz.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Maybe you just need to manually run "kldload i915" or "kldload radeonkms"
> (depending on whether your graphics-chipset is from AMD or Intel), before
> trying to launch weston.  At the moment, weston doesn't load the kms-driver
> automatically like Xorg does.
>
> With an nvidia GPU you are out of luck, since the nouveau driver port to
> DragonFly isn't finished yet.
>
> Imre
>
> On 15:39 Fri 06 May , Bernard Mentink wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried that, and wayland tried to run, then failed saying it can't find
> > drm ..
> > ( weston run with --backend=drm-backend.so)
> >
> > What do I have to install to get the drm-backend?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Imre Vadasz <imre at vdsz.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > DragonFly actually has a udevd daemon, which needs to be activated with
> > > udevd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf for the weston port to work with the
> > > DRM backend.
> > >
> > > The DragonFly udev is somewhat similar in naming and functionality to
> > > Linux's udev, but e.g. it uses a slightly different API in the library
> > > (which is called libdevattr instead of linux's libudev).
> > >
> > > Imre
> > >
> > > On 15:13 Thu 05 May , Bernard Mentink wrote:
> > > > Hi Guys,
> > > >
> > > > Just ran up weston/wayland to see how the port is going, link here:
> > > > https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/DeltaPorts/pull/123
> > > >
> > > > It works fine in an X11 window, but having trouble via DRM. I
> followed
> > > the
> > > > guide, but when run in a tty, get the following error:
> *wayland-launch:
> > > > udev-new failed* ..
> > > >
> > > > I did not know dragonfly was using udev, thought it was only devd ..
> > > > Forgive my ignorance .. and I know it is a work in progress ..
> > > >
> > > > Be good to see it up and running though ...
> > > >
> > > > Bernie
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > >
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> > > port a
> > > > UNIX system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC
> hackers
> > > sit
> > > > down and try to write a UNIX system for the PC*
> > > >
> > >
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> >
> >
> >
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> > *BSD is what you get when a bunch of UNIX hackers sit down to try to
> port a
> > UNIX system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers
> sit
> > down and try to write a UNIX system for the PC*
> >
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