On Thu Jul 9 17:02:12 2015 GMT+0100, Steven Newbury wrote:
> On Thu Jul 9 16:04:35 2015 GMT+0100, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Steven Newbury <steve at snewbury.org.uk> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu Jul 9 03:32:40 2015 GMT+0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > >> On 09.07.2015 06:01, Steven Newbury wrote:
> > >> > On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 21:56 +0100, Steven Newbury wrote:
> > >> >> On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 09:18 +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> > >> >>> On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 22:50:30 +0100 Steven Newbury
> > >> >>> <steve at snewbury.org.uk> wrote:
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>>> Would gles1 be sufficient to run a Wayland compositor, I'm
> > >> >>>> guessing probably not..?
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> If you can find a Wayland compositor that is written to composite
> > >> >>>  with GLES1, that's all you need from the "Wayland side". (Yeah,
> > >> >>> this has nothing to do with Wayland per se.) Compositing in
> > >> >>> itself without any effects is very simple, as long as you get the
> > >> >>> textures up.
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> Or, if you find a Wayland compositor written to use desktop
> > >> >>> OpenGL for compositing and does not use features your GL driver
> > >> >>> does not expose, that's good too.
> > >> >>>
> > >> >> Is desktop OpenGL accessible from "EGL_PLATFORM=drm"?
> > >> >>
> > >> > To answer my own question, it seems that is possible.  I wonder if
> > >> > it works with mutter/cogl???
> > >>
> > >> It does.
> > >>
> > >> However, your problem seems rather that gnome-shell/mutter doesn't
> > >> support R200 anymore.
> > > Yes, that's true. I wonder if I can revert the incompatible change or 
> > > better create a env variable to revert to the compatible behaviour or 
> > > something? I'll need to take a look...
> > 
> > I'm not sure how valid this is any more:
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51658
> > 
> > Basic issue is that r1xx/r2xx hw only has a limited number of render
> > buffer formats while they support a lot of texture formats.  Gnome
> > shell expects to be able to render to the same formats they can
> > texture from.
> > 
> It looks like a bit of a hack, it's a pity to lose valid texture formats, but 
> I've applied the patches from the bug after a little manual intervention. 
> It's building now, will take some time!  

Didn't work.  Still get the same error! :-(

On the other hand, I've got muffin to work compositor is actually okay, so 
thought I'd try cinnamon, but it's trying to use 1.5GB which isn't going to 
work! ;-)

Will probably revert to Xfce... 

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