Wayland Weston

Bernard Mentink bmentink at gmail.com
Thu May 5 20:39:38 PDT 2016


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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> >
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