> As suggested by you guys, I have upgraded my system to Ubuntu 11.10 and > now I am able to run weston and other clients (using wayland-build-0.85.sh). > (although I am not able to run Gtk3 clients as they are throwing errors) > Thanks a lot for your suggestion. So the root cause of the problem seems > to be old version of Ubuntu 10.10 ( Kernel - ?? supporting packages - ??) >
That's good to hear. I'm guessing the kernel bits were too old. > > Now, that I have got Wayland running, I would like to dig in to the > technical details of it as my final aim is to port this on an embedded > board. But as I am very new to Linux graphics stack, so I would to first > understand few basics. May be I would be posting my queries on a different > thread. > Yes, might be a good idea to start a new thread. Also, there is #wayland on irc.freenode.net where you can find us. > > Just for the starting, can you please explain: > 1. When I am running weston and clients (say simple-egl) from a live X > session, is Weston running on top of X? Yes. Weston is running as an X client in this case. > But I guess this is different from XWayland where Xserver is a rootless > client of Weston. (just the opposite I believe) Is this understanding > correct? > Yes, weston listens on display :1 for X clients and starts an xserver it then uses a special window manager to display them as weston clients. > 2. When I move to a text terminal (Ctrl+Alt+ F1, with X still running), I > am able to run weston and simple-egl, but this time X display server is not > coming in to picture. I'm not exactly sure what you mean here. > Sorry for my novice queries, but it would be very helpful if you could > kindly provide me answers to the above queries. > It's no problem. Regards, Scott
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