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Date:      Fri, 14 Jun 2019 20:16:25 +0300
From:      Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>
To:        Dale Brazelton <dalebrazelton@outlook.com>, Johannes Lundberg <johalun@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "x11@freebsd.org" <x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Sway, Wayland, and Xwayland
Message-ID:  <88F6F199-8AF6-41AB-981A-EAE846D0BA77@unrelenting.technology>
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On June 13, 2019 10:36:26 PM GMT+03:00, Dale Brazelton <dalebrazelton@outlo=
ok=2Ecom> wrote:
>Even after implementing all the suggestions from Jan I was unable to
>get firefox to work in sway, neither natively in wayland or with
>xwayland=2E After spending a good part of yesterday testing it, I'm
>convinced my problems are due to the implementation of amdgpu in
>FreeBSD 12 stable=2E For example, I could only run sway once per boot=2E =
If
>I ever exited sway and tried to restart it my computer would hang and
>I'd have to power it off=2E

Yeah, recovery from a compositor exit has always been=2E=2E fun=2E With my=
 consolekit2 setup, quitting and restarting a compositor sometimes works=2E

> (I realize I'm probably the only person in
>the world trying to run a FreeBSD desktop on an amd Vega 64 graphics
>card!)

Oh no, I'm using a Vega daily, been doing that since last winter (and used=
 an RX 480 before that)=2E And several people with Vega have reported bugs =
on our GitHub issue tracker (FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm)=2E

> I'll postpone further testing until we have a more up to date
>amdgpu, mesa, xorg-server, and xwayland in 12 stable=2E

Why wait when you can use -CURRENT and kms-drm from git? :D



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