gnome applet can't initialize Clutter

[Scott Chapman]

I'm not very savvy about video drivers but looking here:

http://www.vivantecorp.com/technology/3d.html

It shows the GC2000 series (which I find is in the XO-4 here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-4_Touch) supports a bunch of OpenGL API's.

/me confused


On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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> >> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >
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