Re: Testing request: gdm-on-Wayland on hybrid graphics laptops (esp. Macbooks)

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Hi William, please add yourself to the bug and of course provide any information you
can provide. We need to know more about the scope of this to be able to determine 
if its a blocker or not. Of course our challenge is that until we have a way to
reproduce on a system our devs can look at or get logs that helps us understand
what is happening it is hard to fix.

Christian



----- Original Message -----
> From: "William" <william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 7:39:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Testing request: gdm-on-Wayland on hybrid graphics laptops	(esp. Macbooks)
> 
> On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 13:01 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Hi folks!
> > 
> > We have a somewhat-worrying proposed blocker for F22:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218787
> > 
> > it appears that after a successful installation of Workstation on the
> > affected system, GDM-on-Wayland fails to start correctly but also
> > does
> > not fall through (as it should) to GDM-on-X, leaving the user with a
> > black screen and no obvious way to proceed. This is obviously a bad
> > bug, but so far it has only been observed on one test system (a
> > Macbook
> > Pro 8,2) by one tester. A few other testers have tried to reproduce
> > on
> > other hybrid graphics systems, but have not been able to.
> 
> 
> This has affected my MacbookPro 8,2 for about a year. I want to see
> this as a blocker, so that it is taken seriously as the issue has gone
> otherwise ignored. This affects straight Xorg, not just Wayland.
> 
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