gnome applet can't initialize Clutter

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Scott Chapman <scott at mischko.com> wrote:
> 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.

It's not the version that's shipped.

> /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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