Has any gotten wayland demos to run on Ubuntiu 11.10

Pekka Paalanen ppaalanen at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 01:57:43 PST 2011


On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:28:18 +0200
Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On 11/29/2011 08:44 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> >
> > First, no proprietary driver will work for Wayland.
> 
> well, that's not absolutely true.

Sorry, should have said "for Wayland demos right now". It was implied,
since the question was about running the demos today.

> Any driver, being proprietary or not, can get a drm fd, use gbm and 
> create EGLImage objects. Nothing prevents that. What Pekka meant, is 
> that most of the stock Linux distros are not (yet) shipping
> proprietary drivers supporting Wayland... one obvious reason being
> that we change the protocol every week now :)

Proprietary driver, dealing with a DRM interface? That's a good one! ;-D
Especially when we talk about Nvidia.

- pq


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