Re: wayland on LFS
Nathan Coulson <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Nathan Coulson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:42 AM, George <[email protected]> wrote: >> Wayland is lighter replacement of X for all I know, that's why I found it >> interesting and thought building it LFS would be nice, so I think what you >> are trying to do is of interest to at least one other person :). My only >> concern was that it was not very stable and I was not sure what display >> manager to use etc.. > > well, to make some random guesses, I imagine it will be unstable & unusable. > > At best, I would run Xorg on top of wayland, and have the > functionality I have now (or most of it) > > This is for science though :) like the time I installed KDE 4 on my > GMA x3000 board about 2-3 months after the worst state they were ever > in. [was unstable, and crashed within 5-10 minutes]. Not sure if the > problem was KDE (not known for stability at that time 4.0 or 4.1, not > sure which), or the git versions of xorg server/mesa/kernel/some > other packages. > > In the end, decided I liked fluxbox (and now openbox) better then KDE, > but it was fun :) Well, I'm lost wayland-compositor seems to start the graphics mode, but I couldn't figure out how to run things on top of wayland. well, so much for science. http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ has a Building wayland section, if anyone wants to follow in my footprints I added the wayland-libraries, and libxkbcommon to the lib section in blfs chapter 23, and for mesa I used --with-egl-platforms=x11,wayland,drm --enable-gbm --enable-shared-glapi. although never figured out what --enable-gbm does... Oh, and I used cairo 1.10.4, although the directions suggested 1.11.3. never gave the compositor a background image, so that's probablyi why I saw a garbled background (mouse cursor seemed to work though), and it seemed like I could set up more then one compositor. It just replaced the existing virtual terminal. Review: Looks promising & simple, but I have no clue what I am doing. -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page