Xmir now in Saucy main repository

[grahammechanical]

I found this link on Ubuntu Discourse

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...st/037572.html


I tried the 20130809 ISO image but the live session does not run on Xmir like the Xubuntu-Xmir ISO does. I will try again with the daily image for tomorrow, 20130810. Now, that Xmir is in the main repository it should soon be part of the ISO image.

That link also gives an update on progress.

Regards.

[mc4man]

"- Fallback to stand alone X (for proprietary drivers)"
That is now working ok here so if not liking the combo of nouveau, xmir & u-s-c then installing the prop nvidia drivers will make 13.10 useful
Whether fallback & 3d support work with both available nvidia drivers don't know, 3.19 seems ok

(whether they create a hard dep on u-s-c in 13.10 I also don't know but atm it can be removed or disabled if not suitable

[Mateusz Stachowski]

... I will try again with the daily image for tomorrow, 20130810. Now, that Xmir is in the main repository it should soon be part of the ISO image.

unity-system-compositor won't be part of the main installation until they develop two major features to support XMir, multimonitor & bypass composition support. You can be sure that XMir won't be enabled in 20130810 image and other that will follow in next week. I think that it will land just before the Feature freeze on August 22.

[grahammechanical]

Thank you.

So, not long then?

Regards.

[mc4man]

u-s-c is in the main repo now so no need for ppa, just install u-s-c & restart to try.

The input delay bug is pretty much fixed though at least here with MY nvidia hardware vsync in nouveau continues to be nonexistent
Restarts show vram instead of plymouth, not that big of a deal

[OrangeCrate]

After thoroughly wrecking my current install, I just grabbed the latest Xubuntu 64-bit daily from unetbootin (it doesn't tell you the specific date) and reinstalled.

Checking synaptic, I see this package:

xserver-xorg-xmir

Description:

Xorg - the X.Org X server (module for running nested in Mir)

xserver-xorg-xmir provides an extension module to support running an
Xorg as a client of an existing Mir compositor.

Edit:

Oops, accidently posted before I had finished. See next post...

[OrangeCrate]

Adding...

I went ahead and installed that package plus it's dependencies, and nothing happened. Looked around in synaptic and found the unity-system-compositor package and installed that with it's dependencies too. Rebooted, and here we are:

steve@laptop:~$ ps -ef | grep unity
root 1016 937 0 19:13 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor.sleep --from-dm-fd 10 --to-dm-fd 13 --vt 7
root 1023 1016 1 19:13 tty7 00:00:02 /usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor --from-dm-fd 10 --to-dm-fd 13 --vt 7
steve 1726 1676 0 19:16 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto unity
steve@laptop:~$ grep -i xmir /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 17.888] (II) LoadModule: "xmir"
[ 17.888] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libxmir.so
[ 17.909] (II) Module xmir: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 18.071] (II) intel(0): Output XMIR-1 has no monitor section
[ 18.071] (II) intel(0): Printing probed modes for output XMIR-1
[ 18.071] (II) intel(0): Modeline "XMIR mode of death"x59.9 71.00 1280 1328 1360 1440 800 803 809 823 +hsync -vsync (49.3 kHz eP)
[ 18.071] (II) intel(0): Output XMIR-1 connected
[ 18.071] (II) intel(0): Output XMIR-1 using initial mode XMIR mode of death
steve@laptop:~$

steve@laptop:~$ grep -i LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 17.992] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 18.008] (II) LoadModule: "xmir"
[ 18.184] (II) LoadModule: "intel"
[ 18.184] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[ 18.185] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[ 18.185] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[ 18.186] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[ 18.186] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[ 18.186] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
[ 18.188] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[ 18.214] (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
[ 18.237] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
steve@laptop:~$


As I mentioned in another thread, this mir/xmir thingee is new to me. I assume I've got everything installed properly, if not, please let me know...

There is "flashing" on the login screen on startup, but once in, things, at least for now, appear to be working fine.

Tested on a Lenovo ThinkPad T400, with an embedded Intel chipset.

[Chanath]

I installed xmir from the repos, but how do I get into xmir?

[Elfy]

Installed them with a clean install of Xubuntu daily - other than a flashing login screen it appears to be 'ok'

[P-I H]

I have installed on an Asus 1000HE and on a desktop with Radeon HD6670 graphics. It is working on the Asus with Intel graphics. The validation

p-i@pi-1000HE:~$ ps aux | grep unity-system-compositor
root       932  0.0  0.0   2268   552 ?        S    09:02   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor.sleep --from-dm-fd 10 --to-dm-fd 13 --vt 7
root       938  0.1  1.9 237396 19528 tty7     Ssl+ 09:02   0:26 /usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor --from-dm-fd 10 --to-dm-fd 13 --vt 7
p-i       5544  0.0  0.0   5672   852 pts/0    S+   12:56   0:00 grep --color=auto unity-system-compositor
p-i@pi-1000HE:~$ grep -i xmir /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    42.064] (II) LoadModule: "xmir"
[    42.065] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libxmir.so
[    42.110] (II) Module xmir: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    42.318] (II) intel(0): Output XMIR-1 has no monitor section
[    42.318] (II) intel(0): Printing probed modes for output XMIR-1
[    42.318] (II) intel(0): Modeline "XMIR mode of death"x59.7   43.75  1024 1072 1104 1184  600 603 613 619 +hsync -vsync (37.0 kHz eP)
[    42.319] (II) intel(0): Output XMIR-1 connected
[    42.319] (II) intel(0): Output XMIR-1 using initial mode XMIR mode of death
p-i@pi-1000HE:~$ ls -l /var/log/lightdm/unity-system-compositor.log
-rw------- 1 root root 62 aug 11 09:02 /var/log/lightdm/unity-system-compositor.log
p-i@pi-1000HE:~$

It isn't working on the desktop. The validation

p-i@pi-GA-MA770-UD3-ubuntutest:~$ ps aux | grep unity-system-compositor
p-i       3913  0.0  0.0  14860   948 pts/0    S+   14:29   0:00 grep --color=auto unity-system-compositor
p-i@pi-GA-MA770-UD3-ubuntutest:~$ grep -i xmir /var/log/Xorg.0.log
p-i@pi-GA-MA770-UD3-ubuntutest:~$ ls -l /var/log/lightdm/unity-system-compositor.log
-rw------- 1 root root 143 aug 11 12:41 /var/log/lightdm/unity-system-compositor.log
p-i@pi-GA-MA770-UD3-ubuntutest:~$

The unity-system-compositor.log contains

/usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1: undefined symbol: mir_egl_mesa_display_is_valid