Compile and use rpi-backend on raspberry 2 gave always black screen after weston-launch

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 17/09/2015 14:15, Pekka Paalanen ha scritto:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:13:19 +0200
> Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni at m2r.biz> wrote:
>
>> Il 16/09/2015 18:00, Pekka Paalanen ha scritto:
>>> On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:10:09 +0200
>>> Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni at m2r.biz> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I'm trying wayland with weston on raspberry 2, the system used is
>>>> debian Sid plus latest kernel and drivers with rpi-update.
>>>> Using weston from official package 1.8.0-3 with fbdev-backend.so but
>>>> graphic seems to perform badly, so following this howto:
>>>> http://wayland.freedesktop.org/raspberrypi.html I compiled it with
>>>> rpi-backend.so and other raspberry specific options.
>>>> Launching weston-launch gave me only black screen (the
>>>> dispmanx_offline=1 is already set), system is still accessible with ssh
>>>> (when I can kill weston process).
>>>>
>>>> I tried also to compile and use weston from git commit
>>>> ca510d06dca3e47e434a50cee105e96c9e82599c but I had also same result with
>>>> both normal user and root.
>>>> I not found any warning or error in logs or other useful information for
>>>> now.
>>>> Can someone help me to solve or at least debug the problem and report
>>>> any useful informations for solve it please?
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> could you post 'head config.log' from your Weston build directory,
>>> and the log file contents from 'weston-launch &> log.txt'?
>> Thanks for your reply.
>> See attachments, full config.log and build log of 1.8.0 build of debian
>> package changing configure parameters based on raspberry wiki page.
>> weston.log is the output of weston-launch.
>> weston.ini have config of the test, plus the the line commented of first
>> test from official debian package working but graphic seems to perform
>> badly.
> Arguments to ./configure seem ok.
>
>>> Can you exit Weston (or at least make the process exit, even if the
>>> screen does not recover) by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace?
>> Pressing ctrl+alt+backspace exit correctly from weston with black screen
>> only.
> So input works, good. Only gfx output is missing.
>
> Your weston log looks ok, with one strange thing: "mesg: ttyname
> failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device". I wonder where that comes from.
>
>>> I'm not sure how hard it would be on your distribution, but trying
>>> various old versions of the firmware and proprietary libs (always
>>> use a matching set) you might find a version that works, in case
>>> this is a firmware issue.
>> I automatically updated them with rpi-update, I don't have good
>> experience on arm, I did only few tests (mainly on raspberry pi 2), any
>> advice is appreciated.
> If you look into the documentation of rpi-update, you should find how
> to specify old versions: https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update
>
> Unfortunately I cannot tell what a good firmware revision might be.
> Also, I don't think I've tried Weston on rpi2, only on rpi1. They
> probably shouldn't differ in this respect, but who knows.
>
> Maybe someone who actually has Weston/rpi-backend working could tell
> his firmware revision. The distribution shouldn't matter as long as
> rpi-update updates the libraries too.
>
> Actually you might want to check if there are multiple copies of e.g.
> libbcm_host.so, libvcos.so, libvchiq_arm.so or such. Using a wrong
> version compared to your firmware might cause problems. Also try the
> demos from
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/opt/vc/src/hello_pi
> If things like hello_dispmanx don't show up, then the problem is with
> the firmware or the proprietary libs for sure.
>
>
> Thanks,
> pq

Thanks for you reply.
I did some other tests, trying latest update with kernel 4.1.7 gave same 
result, I tried also commit 33a6707cf1c96b8a2b5dac2ac9dead590db9fcaa 
(latest 3.18) but also in this case same result (black screen) and 
nothing useful in logs :(
I tried to build and run hello_dispmanx.bin and seems working: I see a 
blue, green and redsquares at the center of the screen.

Is there someone that use raspberry 2 with wayland/weston that can give 
me a commit of a working firmware please?