[Buildroot] [RPi4] Enable GTK3 on Buildroot

[Derek T]

Hello all,

Thank you for the guidance and patch, I just successfully built and tested
it on the Raspberry Pi 4 with an HDMI display.  Do you know when these
changes are going to be mainlined?
Tested-by: Derek Tata <derek.tata1 at gmail.com>

Best,
Derek

On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 2:35 PM Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:

>
>
> On 02/06/2021 22:26, Peter Seiderer wrote:
> > Hello Derek,
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:23:46 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni <
> thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 15:21:29 -0600
> >> Derek T <derek.tata1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am trying to enable GTK3 on Buildroot to deploy to a Raspberry Pi 4,
> and
> >>> having trouble initializing the Xorg server with an HDMI display.  The
> >>> persistent error seems to be an undefined symbol while loading
> >>> fbturbo_drv.so.  I tried manually loading the libraries in the config
> file,
> >>> which helped with some of the undefined symbol errors, but the symbol
> >>> "fbdevHWSave" has continued to throw an error.  I have a Weston daemon
> >>> running on the device, and on boot a desktop screen shows up on the
> >>> display.
> >>
> >> If you already have Weston up and running, why are you not using the
> >> Wayland backend of Gtk3 ? It seems more logical than trying to get
> >> X.org working.
> >
> > Despite the suggestion that there are better solutions than fbturbo on
> RPi4
> > your problem should be fixed by the buildroot patch
> > '[v1] package/x11r7/xdriver_xf86-video-fbturbo: fix driver loading' (see
> [1])...,
> > thanks for providing the buildroot config file to reproduce the
> failure...
>
>  If that works for you, please reply to that mail with
>
> Tested-by: your name <your at email.address>
>
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter
> >
> > [1]
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20210602201529.6210-1-ps.report@gmx.net/
> >
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Thomas
> >
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