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

[Chris Murphy]

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 5:39 PM, William <william at firstyear.id.au> wrote:
> 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.

Is this an early or late 2011 MBP 8,2?

I ask because if I edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and uncomment
WaylandEnable=false, I get a visible login screen; and also the
problem does't happen with Fedora 21 (live or as installed).



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Chris Murphy