I'm still trying to get Wayland to work reliably. At the moment I log in
at a TTY, then fire it up with "startplasma-wayland" ... except it
doesn't start properly!
I'm GUESSING part of the problem is my video card isn't set up properly.
But I thought I'd followed the gentoo guide, and compiled the Radeon and
R600 drivers into my kernel. I prefer to compile stuff in the kernel and
not as modules, and I told it to load the drivers into the kernel, but
am worried I might have missed something. I've changed it for the next
kernel so it'll be a module loading what it wants from the firmware
directory, so hopefully that'll be better but I'm not sure.
I did an lspci -k and got this for the video card ...
09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon
I notice it says "VGA compatible", and not what the wiki page leads me
to expect - something like "Video driver" - which makes me think the
card isn't set up properly.
The symptoms basically are that wayland always hangs the first attempt
to start it. Once killed from another tty it MAY (or may not) start
successfully.
I mentioned Thunderbird - that keeps on losing contact with the
compositor or something which is why it keeps crashing ...
And I run a multi-user system. I tried to fire up wayland as a second
user, and got the error
kwin_xwl: /tmp/.X11-unix is not owned by root or us
Of course it isn't - it's not a user specific link so of course it's
going to clash with another user!
I attach the wayland log I got in case it gives anybody any other clues
as to what's going on.
Cheers,
Wol
at a TTY, then fire it up with "startplasma-wayland" ... except it
doesn't start properly!
I'm GUESSING part of the problem is my video card isn't set up properly.
But I thought I'd followed the gentoo guide, and compiled the Radeon and
R600 drivers into my kernel. I prefer to compile stuff in the kernel and
not as modules, and I told it to load the drivers into the kernel, but
am worried I might have missed something. I've changed it for the next
kernel so it'll be a module loading what it wants from the firmware
directory, so hopefully that'll be better but I'm not sure.
I did an lspci -k and got this for the video card ...
09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon
I notice it says "VGA compatible", and not what the wiki page leads me
to expect - something like "Video driver" - which makes me think the
card isn't set up properly.
The symptoms basically are that wayland always hangs the first attempt
to start it. Once killed from another tty it MAY (or may not) start
successfully.
I mentioned Thunderbird - that keeps on losing contact with the
compositor or something which is why it keeps crashing ...
And I run a multi-user system. I tried to fire up wayland as a second
user, and got the error
kwin_xwl: /tmp/.X11-unix is not owned by root or us
Of course it isn't - it's not a user specific link so of course it's
going to clash with another user!
I attach the wayland log I got in case it gives anybody any other clues
as to what's going on.
Cheers,
Wol