RDP backend not working along with fbdev backend

[Ucan, Emre (ADITG/SW1)]

Hi,

Currently, hot plugging screens is not working with ivi-shell.

Best regards

Emre Ucan
Software Group I (ADITG/SW1)

Tel. +49 5121 49 6937

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wayland-devel [mailto:wayland-devel-
> bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Pekka Paalanen
> Sent: Donnerstag, 24. November 2016 09:33
> To: Arun Kumar
> Cc: wayland-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: RDP backend not working along with fbdev backend
> 
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:28:13 +0530
> Arun Kumar <arunkumar281191 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to port the rdp-backend in  IMX6 ARM target running fb-dev as
> > the graphic backend. The target has the Weston
> > compositor with IVI shell.
> >
> > Target : NXP IMX6
> > FreeRDP : 1.0.0
> > Weston /Wayland : 1.9.0
> > IVI shell. 1.9.1
> >
> > But once my system is up and running I am able to see my target comeup
> with
> > its UI screen on the display.
> > At this point I started xfreerdp from the host to connect to the
> > rdp-backend for screen replicaiton. But in the host
> > I am able to see only the blank window where as the target display still
> > have the UI screens.
> >
> >
> > weston.ini
> > [core]
> > shell=ivi-shell.so
> > backend=fbdev-backend.so
> >
> > [ivi-shell]
> > ivi-module=ivi-controller.so
> >
> > $ weston --tty=1
> >
> >
> > $ weston --backend=rdp-backend.so --rdp-tls-cert=/meta/test.crt
> > --rdp-tls-key=/meta/test.key --width=1024 --height=768 --
> socket=wayland-1
> 
> Hi,
> 
> ok, so you are starting to completely separate instances of Weston. Do
> you expect these two instances to share something, or did you mention
> the fbdev case only to show that ivi-shell does work in general, but
> not with RDP-backend?
> 
> Screen replication does not work by manually starting two weston
> instances as they will be independent. You'd have to use the
> screen-share plugin to do that.
> 
> I think ivi-shell does not handle hotplugging of anything, so that
> might be the reason why you don't see anything on RDP-backend.
> Hopefully people more knowledgeable in the ivi-shell (hotplug
> handling?) and RDP-backend (which things are hotplugged?) could clarify
> a bit.
> 
> Btw. you are also using the ivi-controller.so that is not part of
> Weston upstream, so maybe it does not take it well to have multiple
> instances of it running? You'd have to ask the people who work on
> ivi-controller.so.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> pq