xwayland issue with i965_dri.so

[Pete Wright]

On 2020-03-11 22:41, Jan Beich wrote:
> Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> writes:
>
>> hello - i've discussed this on irc but wanted to move it to email for
>> wider exposure (and also providing myself with notes i can refer to
>> later).
>>
>> i am able to launch sway on my i915 intel laptop running 12-STABLE
>> without any issues, and i am able to run xfce4-terminal in native
>> wayland more which is great!  yet i notice this from the output from sway:
>>
>> i965_dri.so does not support the 0xffffffff PCI ID.
> This error comes from Mesa.
>
>> Refusing to try glamor on llvmpipe
>> EGL setup failed, disabling glamor
>> Failed to initialize glamor, falling back to sw
>>
>>
>> i believe this is causing problems with starting Xorg apps via
>> xwayland, for example chrome and firefox crash on startup.  i did some
>> googling and it looks like Jan ran into this problem a while back:
>> http://freebsd.1045724.x6.nabble.com/Xwayland-i965-dri-so-does-not-support-the-0xffffffff-PCI-ID-td6307408.html
> I also had https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241821
> which did reappear for some time but not anymore.
>
> What FreeBSD kernel are you running? Makes sure you have
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23846 as it may affect more than just
> Vulkan in Mesa.
Thanks for the tip on the outdated linux kernel, it does look like 
kernel didn't have that patch for the linuxkpi - rebuilding now and will 
update thread if this fixes things.

cheers!
-pete

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Pete Wright
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