Issues with running Xclient using xwayland.

ashjas ashjas at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 21:18:39 PST 2013


Thanks Bill for that info.. after searching for your patch i found this
discussion of what you indicated.. but i couldnot find the patch that you
mentioned..
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-September/005203.html

can you give me some pointers?

Thanks.


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:

> This sounds like the problem I had in that it is finding the xorg.conf
> setup needed to run X normally.
>
> I posted a patch some time ago to make the xorg server use different
> filenames when running the wayland backend. I really can't see any other
> way to allow xwayland to run on the same machine that somebody may also
> want to run normal X on.
>
>
> Pekka Paalanen wrote:
>
>  The X server must not use the modules nv, vesa, or fbdev, since they
>> are not Wayland-enabled drivers. Having them fail is ok and intentional.
>> Something else is the problem.
>>
>> The only other compatible Wayland-enabled driver with a nvidia card is
>> the xf86-video-wlshm, which does not depend on any particular hardware.
>>
>
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