Playing With GTK/Qt5/SDL/EFL On Wayland 1.2

[mark45]

Neither Aug 30 nor Sep 1 work for me - Nvidia gtx 560Ti, it just stops with a blank screen like a terminal with something written. The iso from July 14 worked fine. Someone send a Nvidia card to nerdopolis please, I could send myself if I wasn't that greedy and selfish.

[nerdopolis]

...Interesting. I'll take a look

And it seems it was related to this, http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/...adc778a9108a5f which is a recent fix in Weston. However, instead, I am now installing libva http://rebeccablackos.svn.sourceforg...&revision=1603 so it can be used for Weston's new hardware accelerated screen recording

[nerdopolis]

nerdopolis released a new version of RebeccaBlackOS on August 30th and a follow-up release on September 1st, both announced on the Wayland mailing list. I'm surprised it was not already covered on Phoronix.

Since nerdopolis seems to hang here, and I couldn't find an official bug tracker, I thought I would report this here:

The initial boot takes me into TTY, and TTY8 contains this error message:

Loading module /opt/lib/i386-gnu-linux/weston/drm-backend.so
Failed to load module /opt/lib/i386-gnu-linux/weston/drm-backend.so: undefined symbol: vaapi_recorder_create

Apparently this the showstopper here. Tested on NV92 and NV46 cards, same thing.

...Interesting. I'll take a look

[jukkan]

nerdopolis released a new version of RebeccaBlackOS on August 30th and a follow-up release on September 1st, both announced on the Wayland mailing list. I'm surprised it was not already covered on Phoronix.

Since nerdopolis seems to hang here, and I couldn't find an official bug tracker, I thought I would report this here:

The initial boot takes me into TTY, and TTY8 contains this error message:

Loading module /opt/lib/i386-gnu-linux/weston/drm-backend.so
Failed to load module /opt/lib/i386-gnu-linux/weston/drm-backend.so: undefined symbol: vaapi_recorder_create

Apparently this the showstopper here. Tested on NV92 and NV46 cards, same thing.

[nerdopolis]

Hi,
can you please comment on why in this latest release "apt-cache policy libwayland0" (or so I recall the command) reports version 1.0.5 instead of 1.2?

That's the version that comes with Ubuntu packages in /usr.

Version 1.2 and other Wayland software is in /opt, and the checkinstall packages that I build are all suffixed with *-rbos

[mark45]

Hi,
can you please comment on why in this latest release "apt-cache policy libwayland0" (or so I recall the command) reports version 1.0.5 instead of 1.2?

[mannerov]

Just tested and... very enthousiastic!

No tearings! (Even in videos!)

Of course there were things that didn't work, but what works is great!

[Maxjen]

The smaller one doesn't have debugging symbols in the binaries, and all the -dev packages, and other development related packages are removed.

If you're just using wayland, there shouldn't be a user visible difference between the two (except one uses less space)

Thanks, I downloaded the reduced one. And man it's awesome, I almost cried! After all these years the most annoying thing since back in the time when I used Beryl, the slow resizing of windows, is finally gone. I was also glad to see that EFL is already installed and that it is working perfectly. I liked the "Flip Page" test in particular. Hopefully this will eventually get integrated into an EFL pdf reader. Now I really can't wait for Fedora 20 or so when I can finally have a native Wayland desktop with Enlightenment. Developers, please hurry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another little thing I noticed is that buttons in Gtk applications now have an animated hover effect. I don't know if this is because of the new Gtk version or just because of the theme, but it is nice.

[Rexilion]

Or loopback mount the .iso with grub2 and use so-scan/filename=$isofile as a kernel parameter to find the .iso from the kernel. Worked for me. No dd or seperate partition needed.

[jukkan]

How can i write it to usb? i tried using dd tool, but it didnt worked out

dd worked for me. Did you use /dev/sdx, and not /dev/sdx1 for example, as the 'of=' parameter? Also check that you didnt mess up if and of.