Wayland Weston

[karu.pruun]

Did you have any luck running wayland with i915? What wm/desktop did
you use? I read enlightenment 0.20 supports wayland. . .

Cheers

Peeter

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On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Bernard Mentink <bmentink at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> 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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