Bug 105851 Xserver 1.20 RC2+ issues with Kwin + Present 1.2

[Daniel Stone]

Hi Mike,

On 4 April 2018 at 09:12, Mike Lothian <mike at fireburn.co.uk> wrote:
> Kwin doesn't seem to start with the following commit:
>
> commit abb9b58d1af9a0286162e52ef9db390d0c950fc1
> Author: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> Date:   Fri Mar 16 14:24:21 2018 +0100
>
>     present: Advertise protocol version 1.2
>
>     [...]
>
> Though I think the issue may lie in commit:
>
> commit 6a5d51e0823b43280e3646b7a0c919a3b76146ea
> Author: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
> Date:   Mon Mar 19 16:04:43 2018 +0000
>
>     present: cap the version returned to the client
>
>     [...]
>
> I realise that Kwin will probably need to be modified to work with
> Present 1.2, but I don't think we should be seeing breakage unti that
> happens

I think that's just exposing breakage somewhere else in the chain.
With all these series applied, I've been able to get KDE to start with
'startkde' (running Plasma), both with new and old Mesa:
    https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/41104/
    https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/41106/
    https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/41142/

Cheers,
Daniel