From: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paala...@collabora.co.uk>
Either libraspberrypi-dev package or running rpi-update is needed to get
the display API libraries.
It's not strictly necessary to use rpi-update, but I don't know how old
firmware and libs are in the Raspbian packages, so recommend it still.
---
raspberrypi.html | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/raspberrypi.html b/raspberrypi.html
index d77a9e1..b1c2a87 100644
--- a/raspberrypi.html
+++ b/raspberrypi.html
@@ -22,14 +22,17 @@ compiling are done directly on the Pi.</p>
build dependencies:</p>
<pre> $ sudo apt-get install build-essential automake libtool bison flex \
xutils-dev libcairo2-dev libffi-dev libmtdev-dev libjpeg-dev \
- libudev-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcursor-dev
+ libudev-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcursor-dev libraspberrypi-dev
</pre>
<h2>Firmware</h2>
-<p>Make sure you have the latest Raspberry Pi firmware with the
+<p>You may need the latest Raspberry Pi firmware, which you can get with the
<a href="https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update";>rpi-update</a> tool. A too
-old firmware may cause rpi-backend to malfunction on Raspberry Pi.</p>
+old firmware may cause rpi-backend to malfunction on Raspberry Pi. Running
+<tt>rpi-update</tt> will overwrite files installed by some raspbian packages
+like libraspberrypi-dev. You can safely try Weston without <tt>rpi-update</tt>
+first, but if you encounter graphics problems, see if it fixes them.</p>
<p>You may want to tweak the following options in
<tt>/boot/config.txt</tt>:</p>
@@ -44,7 +47,7 @@ old firmware may cause rpi-backend to malfunction on
Raspberry Pi.</p>
elements. With off-line enabled, an off-screen buffer
is allocated for compositing. When scene complexity
(number and sizes of elements) is high, compositing will
- happen off-line into the buffer.</dd>
+ happen off-line into the buffer. <b>Heavily recommended.</b></dd>
</dl>
<h2>Setting up the environment</h2>
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