gnome applet can't initialize Clutter

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Scott Chapman <scott at mischko.com> wrote:
> I'm new to the XO-4.  So it appears that nobody is running a GUI besides
> Sugar on these?

No idea, I have a bunch of XO-4s and other XO devices as I was
involved in the bring up of the ARM platforms and devices.

> We don't have opengl support in the X drivers because of the video type on
> these?

Nope, welcome to closed drivers... The reverse engineered etna_viv
driver will one day be usable with luck but it will depend on a newer
upstream kernel.

> I wonder why OLPC published a build with Gnome if it is this broken?

It's not completely broken, just some components.

Peter

>
>
> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I don't remember the details of the 13.2.0 build, I seem to remember
>> that it was the last release to include fall back mode. The gnome3
>> fallback mode had issues in that anything that was linked against
>> clutter fails because of the lack of opengl support in all of the X
>> drivers.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Scott Chapman <scott at mischko.com> wrote:
>> > That appears to be the version included with the 13.2.0 build?
>> >
>> > What build should I downgrade to that will run Gnome correctly? Or is
>> > there
>> > an easy way to get a non-sugar GUI working on one of these?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> most of the gnome3 stack won't currently run on any of the XOs
>> >>
>> >> Peter
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Scott Chapman <scott at mischko.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > This affects other gnome commands such as gnome-control-panel as
>> >> > well.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Scott Chapman <scott at mischko.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hi!
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I just got an XO-4 and working to get some things working -
>> >> >> bluetooth
>> >> >> in
>> >> >> this case.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I installed the latest OLPC distro to the internal storage as
>> >> >> follows
>> >> >> from
>> >> >> the ok prompt:
>> >> >> fs-update u:\32013o4.zd
>> >> >>
>> >> >> booted to sugar - switched to Gnome
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Bluetooth applet won't show a screen when you right-click on the
>> >> >> icon
>> >> >> in
>> >> >> upper right and select "Bluetooth Settings".
>> >> >>
>> >> >> So, I killed the existing bluetooth-applet and ran another one from
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> command line in a terminal:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> [olpc at xo-d2-7f-9f ~]$ bluetooth-applet
>> >> >>
>> >> >> # Here I selected "Bluetooth Settings" in the new icon and got this:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> (gnome-control-center:1100): GModule-CRITICAL **: g_module_close:
>> >> >> assertion `module->ref_count > 0' failed
>> >> >>
>> >> >> (gnome-control-center:1100): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to
>> >> >> initialize
>> >> >> Clutter: Failed to connected to any renderer due to constraints
>> >> >>
>> >> >> How do I get this working?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thanks,
>> >> >> Scott
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
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