Testing request: gdm-on-Wayland on hybrid graphics laptops (esp. Macbooks)

[William]

On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 13:01 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> We have a somewhat-worrying proposed blocker for F22:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218787
> 
> it appears that after a successful installation of Workstation on the
> affected system, GDM-on-Wayland fails to start correctly but also 
> does
> not fall through (as it should) to GDM-on-X, leaving the user with a
> black screen and no obvious way to proceed. This is obviously a bad
> bug, but so far it has only been observed on one test system (a 
> Macbook
> Pro 8,2) by one tester. A few other testers have tried to reproduce 
> on
> other hybrid graphics systems, but have not been able to.


This has affected my MacbookPro 8,2 for about a year. I want to see
this as a blocker, so that it is taken seriously as the issue has gone
otherwise ignored. This affects straight Xorg, not just Wayland. 

-- 
William <william at firstyear.id.au>