weston rdp black screen

[Maciej Pijanowski]

Hello,

I'm having exactly the same issue as described in the [1].
I have a custom Yocto build running on the embedded board
with Mali GPU. Mali GPU was also used in the mentioned thread.
So maybe there is something in common.

When RDP backend is used as a main backend
(in the core section) I can see the screen content in the RDP client.
When the core backend is DRM and the RDP is started via the screen-share
plugin, I can only see the black screen in the RDP client (although the 
input works
correctly).

I tried running the same combination on Fedora VM or on the RPi4
and in those cases the screen-share works correctly with RDP.

I've been looking for some differences in the logs between those setups.
I have noticed the EGL config in case of Mali to be different than in case
of the other ones.

Mali:

[07:24:23.919] Bad/unknown DRM format code 0x00000000.
[07:24:23.919] Unable to use first choice EGL config with XRGB8888, 
succeeded with alternate ARGB8888.
...
[07:24:23.923] GL version: OpenGL ES 2.0 "fa33ed7"
[07:24:23.923] GLSL version: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.00
[07:24:23.923] GL vendor: ARM
[07:24:23.923] GL renderer: Mali-400 MP
...
[07:24:24.006] Chosen EGL config details: id: 9 rgba: 8 8 8 8 buf: 32
dep: 24 stcl: 8 int: 0-10 type: win|pix|pbf|swap_preserved vis_id: ARGB8888
(0x34325241)

RPi:

[07:04:41.917] GL version: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 20.0.2
[07:04:41.917] GLSL version: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10
[07:04:41.917] GL vendor: Broadcom
[07:04:41.917] GL renderer: V3D 4.2
...
[07:04:42.032] Chosen EGL config details: id: 17 rgba: 8 8 8 0 buf: 24 
dep: 0 stcl: 0 int: 1-1 type: win vis_id: XRGB8888 (0x34325258)


I've changed the format on the RPi ARGB8888 and it still works fine.

One more observation - if I forced the DRM backend to use the pixman 
renderer
(by adding the use-pixman=true in the weston.ini), the cloned content 
appeared
correctly in the RDP client. Of course the performance and usability 
dropped,
as the GPU was no longer used for rendering.
It clearly suggests that the problem is somewhere around the Mali library.

Any suggestions how to approach further debugging of these kind of issues
are highly appreciated.

Thank you

[1] 
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2019-April/040382.html

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Maciej Pijanowski
Embedded Systems Engineer
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