Bug#1080039: freerdp3-sdl: horizontal line artifacts with sway (wayland)

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo

On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:26:38 -0700 Wm M Fender-Westwind <wormrunner@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: freerdp3-sdl
> Version: 3.6.3+dfsg1-2+b1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I use sway as my desktop.  The current version installed is 1.9.  My laptop
> has an nvidia secondary  gpu but it is not being used by sway.
>
> I have been using freerdp2-wayland for some time and it works fine.  I
> tried freerdp3-sdl because freerdp3-wayland gave a message saying it was
> being phased out, but when I try connecting as normal, the display is wonky
> with artifact horizontal lines and some lines of text being missing some
> pixels like a horizxontal line of pixels not being present and the display
> squashed to fit.

Hi!

Can you please try a more recent version of freerdp3?  There were multiple
changes in sdl code in there, and also, recent upload in debian switched
from using sdl2 to sdl3, which is a whole new codebase (sdl2 does not let
freerdp to enable some required features).

Thanks,

/mjt