Trying Wayland

[Elad Alfassa]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:53 PM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I forgot to mention that it is probably limited to systems using intel
> >> graphics,
> >> currently.
> >
> >
> > I thought wayland was meant to work with any driver that has kernel
> > modesetting (be it Intel, Nouveau or radeon)
>
> Its xwayland that's causing problems there is a generic ddx and
> upstream xwayland will not require any but we are not there yet.
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I think I misunderstood then, I was under the impression most basic stuff
(ie. the shell itself, being able to start the session) don't relay on
xwayland and thus should work on non-Intel platforms too (I couldn't start
a wayland session on my radeon machine)

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-Elad Alfassa.
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