Comment 56 for bug 1832138

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Eric Desrochers (slashd) wrote : Re: Login screen never appears on vmwgfx but installing kernel >= v4.17-rc1 (or using WaylandEnable=false) fixes it

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt),

Do you know what change could have introduced this vmwgfx/wayland interaction problem inside mutter in the first place ?

I have strong believe, that something userspace has been changed and no longer interact well with the vmware driver since then.

Just to look at our option (since a kernel fix might be not end up being trivial) does a revert of the change could be a possibility here ? or else.

Ideally, I agree I would have prefer to fix the kernel and I'm also going to pursue that direction, but just looking other avenues in case of ...

Thanks

- Eric