On 10/04/2017 09:44 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: > I've already tried to contact people on IRC, but I was getting "we don't > care, go away" feeling. So, once again, just to make sure Workstation > SIG is aware. There's this blocker: > > heavy screen flicker with latest kernels in qxl+spice VM > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491320 > > We don't have much time until F27 Final release [1]. The kernel folks > are not sure if this can be fixed easily or quickly. It would help if > software stack could be adjusted to avoid this issue: > > a) gnome-boxes and virt-manager defaulting to virtio-vga instead of qxl > > b) mutter falling back to xorg when qxl driver is detected > > It would be great if we didn't have to deal with this at the very last > day, so please, look into this. I expect a) to be quite easy, but please > note this will not fix the problem for anyone using an already created > VM, or using a different distribution. Those will still see F27 > Workstation with horrible flickering display. b) would help with that, > but I assume that's a bit more work. > > Thanks, > Kamil > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/27/Schedule As has been discussed in the bug I don't think we are going to be able to sufficiently solve this issue with workarounds in the virt tools like virt-manager and gnome-boxes. At this point it seems we either need a kernel fix/workaround to materialize, or some change on the gnome side to not default to wayland session if we are running with qxl video. Can someone from the desktop side comment on that idea? (in the bug preferably) Thanks, Cole _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
