sway and libinput initialization failed

[Greg V]

On June 4, 2019 12:05:00 AM GMT+03:00, Jan Beich <jbeich at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>Greg V <greg at unrelenting.technology> writes:
>
>> On May 28, 2019 2:40:45 AM GMT+03:00, Grzegorz Junka
><list1 at gjunka.com> wrote:
>>>However, the graphics seems to be not-accelerated (there is
>noticeable 
>>>"drag" when moving windows around). I am running generic kernel 
>>>12-RELEASE and up to date port (kld_list="amdgpu" in rc.conf). The 
>>>graphics card is Radeon RX Vega 64. Should the hardware acceleration 
>>>work, and if yes, is there any way to verify hardware acceleration is
>
>>>working as expected in either waylaynd or xorg?
>>
>> Sway does not have software rendering at all, IIRC llvmpipe software
>> OpenGL wouldn't work either. So if sway is running, it's
>> accelerated. Run sway with the --verbose flag and read the output, it
>> will show the used renderer. (In the virtual console… but you'll see
>> it after quitting sway)
>
>Xwayland requires LIBGL_DRI3_ENABLE=1 defined via environ(7) in order
>to
>to use (E)GL acceleration. It's a quirk not present in upstream Mesa or
>your graphics/mesa-dev port.

Right, good reminder. Doesn't apply to native Wayland apps. Might help with KDE on Xorg though?? Maybe KWin does not auto enable compositing without DRI3… maybe.