Re: X11 incompatibilities using meta-oe with poky

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:22:43PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When using core-image-sato (latest dora), I encountered again an issue
> that I once solved by hacking around it. It has the following symptoms:
>  - touchscreen calibration doesn't start the first time the board is booted

see
http://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/?id=98bfe33760acb74b67eba9d58ea7cac8cad6d810

I'll backport it to dora

>  - matchbox-keyboard doesn't come up when touching the keyboard icon in
> the panel
>  - matchbox-panel is ugly (compare
> http://www.ossystems.com.br/images/blog/boards/boundarydevices-nitrogen6x-hdmi-screenshot-fsl-image-gui.jpg
> with http://free-electrons.com/~alexandre/matchbox-panel.jpg)
> 
> This time, I decided to investigate that issue a bit more. Here is what
> I found:
> The cause is the /etc/X11/Xsession script which at some point does:
> ==
> 
> What is really happening is that xserver-nodm-init is provided both by
> poky/meta/recipes-graphics/x11-common/xserver-nodm-init.bb and
> meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xserver-nodm-init/xserver-nodm-init_2.0.bb
> 
> layer                 path                                      priority
> ==========================================================================
> meta                  /home/alex/fsl/sources/poky/meta  5
> meta-yocto            /home/alex/fsl/sources/poky/meta-yocto  5
> meta-oe               /home/alex/fsl/sources/meta-openembedded/meta-oe  6
> 
> The meta-oe one is selected ! That one can't actually work with the
> current
> poky/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-keyboard/matchbox-keyboard_git.bb recipe
> because of the "ls -X" sorting and it doesn't know how to handle shbg
> files this will hang trying to use 80matchboxkeyboard.shbg
> 
> So my next step was to remove the meta-oe layer (or simply mask
> /meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/). The final result is
> better but touch screen calibration (xtscal instead of
> xinput-calibrator) fails with:
> XCALIBRATE extension missing: Resource temporarily unavailable
> XCALIBRATE extension missing: Resource temporarily unavailable
> XCALIBRATE extension missing: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> 
> So, questions:
>  - How do we solve that cleanly ?
>  - Why doesn't xserver-common conflicts with x11-common despite
> RCONFLICTS_${PN} = "xserver-kdrive-common x11-common" ?
>  - Shouldn't we stop using xtscal and use xinput-calibrator instead ?
>  - Should we update the Xsession script from the poky recipes and stop
> using x11-common ?
> 
> On my side, what I do is masking
> /meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ and replacing xtscal by
> xinput-calibrator as a dependency of x11-common but I believe we can do
> better.
> 
> -- 
> Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
> 
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