Problems with the newest wayland git

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:11:49 -0800
Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> > Which 3D driver are you using?
> 
> This is running the x11-compositor on the nvidea x11 driver on a rather 
> old nvidia graphics card. So far this has been the most successful setup 
> for me, I used noveau for a while but have pretty much proven it has a 
> bug that causes wayland to run really really slow (where it redraws 
> after every event). This bug does not exist when using nvidea, and it 
> certainly is not a compositor or window manager bug as it was consistent 
> through a lot of versions of Ubuntu and a lot of different window 
> managers including one I wrote myself that I know for a fact is not 
> doing compositing!
> 
> I assume this means it is using mesa's software emulation of EGL. I have 
> to tell you that the wayland compositor is surprisingly non-terrible in 
> this mode!
> 
> I am perfectly willing to believe the EGL is not working because of this 
> setup, but the results I am seeing where more than one wayland client 
> crashes, and the fact that EGL worked before, leads me to think this is 
> some other bug.

There have been complaints, that current Mesa does not work for
software rendering in the Wayland stack, but I don't really know
about that. It seems to be an uninteresting topic for Wayland devs
(me included).

- pq