Direct mode doesn't work on linux 5.1-rc

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ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux#192 · opened 2019-04-12 by ChristophHaag · updated 2019-04-15 · 1 comments · github

CChristophHaag 2019-04-12 github

Vega 64 with newest mesa git etc (not important I think).

With linux 5.0 direct mode works fine, with 5.1-rc direct mode fails to initialize, but SteamVR does not seem to notice, the logs say direct mode is enabled: SteamVR-2019-04-12-_11_19_13.txt

However, the HMD shows nothing and the mirror window is just red: Screenshot_20190412_111736

If I got it right, the issue is that vkAcquireXlibDisplayEXT() returns VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED, which our monado runtime also didn't handle properly before https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/monado/monado/merge_requests/3

Llostgoat 2019-04-15 github

Bisected to kernel commit 8059add0478e29cb641936011a8fcc9ce9fd80be, and a future update of SteamVR will better handle this failure case as well.

Nothing extracted yet.