Resolving https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73782
udev might be configured to set the permissions on framebuffer devices with the
UACCESS attribute.
Weston currently attempts to reconnect to the framebuffer device before udev
can set the permissions back.
It waits 3 times in case if the system is heavily paging, or slowed down, and
prevents udev from working.
In my testing the delay is long enough where it works on the first try
This time with all the closing parenthesis
---
man/weston.man | 4 ++++
src/compositor-drm.c | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/weston.man b/man/weston.man
index c5dc2f2..fd12938 100644
--- a/man/weston.man
+++ b/man/weston.man
@@ -267,6 +267,10 @@ This allows launching Weston as a nested server.
For Wayland clients, holds the file descriptor of an open local socket
to a Wayland server.
.TP
+.B WESTON_FORCE_SW_CURSORS
+Set this variable to force Weston to use software cursors when under the
+compositor-drm backend
+.TP
.B WESTON_CONFIG_FILE
Weston sets this variable to the absolute path of the configuration file
it loads, or to the empty string if no file is used. Programs that use
diff --git a/src/compositor-drm.c b/src/compositor-drm.c
index 0cdb8f4..4e5e2fc 100644
--- a/src/compositor-drm.c
+++ b/src/compositor-drm.c
@@ -1641,7 +1641,10 @@ drm_output_init_egl(struct drm_output *output, struct
drm_compositor *ec)
weston_log("cursor buffers unavailable, using gl cursors\n");
ec->cursors_are_broken = 1;
}
-
+ if (getenv("WESTON_FORCE_SW_CURSORS"))
+ {
+ ec->cursors_are_broken = 1;
+ }
return 0;
}
--
2.1.0
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