Daniel, I was able to update my system, and my sources and was able to get Mir up and running.
I am actually really impressed with the Mir source code. We were considering writing a lot of this ourselves, but I think that Mir has everything that we need already. I do have a couple of questions. - Does Mir support multiple monitors? If so, do you have any examples or at least a starting point on how to set that up. - How does Mir handle surfaces with shapes cut out of them. For example, a smiley face where the background is shown through the eyes and mouth. - Do clients need to have root access. For the fingerprint test, I could not get it to run without a sudo. Thanks, - Rian For others interested in how I got Mir up and running, here were my steps: 1: Install the 3.13 linux kernel. Here is what I used for that: http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-kernel-3-13-rc-7-on-ubuntu-linux-mint-pear-os-and-elementary-os/ 2: Install libDRM from the following PPA: https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/graphics-drivers/ 3: run sudo apt-get build-dep mir 4: Download and compile Mir form the following: http://unity.ubuntu.com/mir/building_source_for_pc.html 5: Download and compile Mir's version of Mesa and here are the compilation steps: http://www.mesa3d.org/install.html I had to add --disable-dri3 to get it to compile, plus the --with-egl-platform=mir,drm Once I was done with that, I could get the examples to execute. On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Daniel van Vugt < daniel.van.v...@canonical.com> wrote: > Rian, > > VMware (Thomas Hellstrom) has implemented Mir support. Apparently you need > kernel 3.13 for the requisite graphics driver DRM changes. And you need a > newish Mesa. > > I don't think anyone has documented the particulars yet. But we certainly > should at least by the time regular Ubuntu (trusty?) has all the > prerequisites in place. > > - Daniel > > > > On 22/01/14 05:08, Rian Quinn wrote: > >> Is it possible to get Mir up and running in a Virtual Machine. I have >> both VMWare and VirtualBox. Currently, under VMWare, you get an error >> about open_drm_device. Basically, I am working with Mir for some client >> / server development, and would like to do testing in a virtual machine >> to start. >> >> Thanks, >> - Rian >> >> >>
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