Whoops, There's A Big Problem For Wayland GTK+

[asdx]

I'm glad I've switched to nouveau a few months ago, and I'm NOT going back to the blob, never again.

[md1032]

If I'm reading this correctly, they're loading libGL into every application linked against GTK+ whether it uses OpenGL or not. Why can't they just call dlopen on it when they decide they need it?

[XorEaxEax]

And how old is this statement? One or two years?

Well until they reissue another statement we'll have to assume that they haven't changed their mind. That said if there's a massive shift towards Wayland then NVidia will reassess the situation, their Linux customers are likely mainly in the 3D/SFX market and if these companies wants to start running Wayland on their workstations NVidia will oblige I'm sure. Thankfully the great work by the nouveau devs is making this into less of a problem.

[garegin]

wayland needs kms? do people realize that kms is broken for millions of computers worldwide. many times I had to do the nomodeset thingie in grub.

[RealNC]

wayland needs kms? do people realize that kms is broken for millions of computers worldwide. many times I had to do the nomodeset thingie in grub.

Well, Wayland is probably the future, but not the present. The whole stack gets better over time.

[asdx]

wayland needs kms? do people realize that kms is broken for millions of computers worldwide. many times I had to do the nomodeset thingie in grub.

And what have you done to help with that? Have you tried reporting bugs?

I never had problems with KMS, what driver/GPU were you using?

[garegin]

i've reported it to almost every linux forum, including this. kms is broken on many macs including the mac mini and macbook air. this is a known bug.

[mrugiero]

And what have you done to help with that? Have you tried reporting bugs?

I never had problems with KMS, what driver/GPU were you using?

Idem. The only problem I had with KMS was in my Unichrome box, because it's not ready yet.

[kraftman]

i've reported it to almost every linux forum, including this. kms is broken on many macs including the mac mini and macbook air. this is a known bug.

So, it seems you're using broken hardware. I never had any problems with KMS on my PC.

[mrugiero]

i've reported it to almost every linux forum, including this. kms is broken on many macs including the mac mini and macbook air. this is a known bug.

That's not reporting a bug. You report it to bugzilla (or any other bug filing framework kernel devs use) or to their mailing list. Not all devs are in forums, you know?

This can help you. I didn't read it yet because I've never found a mainstream bug (well, as a matter of fact, I've found a few, but they were already reported and fixed when I did figured out they were kernel bugs), and the ones with Openchrome were reported directly to their devlist.

EDIT: Whoops, forgot to put the link http://kernelnewbies.org/FoundBug.