Control: affects -1 + src:clapper src:livi
Hi Timo,
Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2025-04-24 15:24:17)
Source: mesa
Version: 25.0.4-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi,
TLDR: please consider carrying this as a patch in Trixie:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/34685
Long story: the upload of gtk 4.18 last month broke GTK applications relying on
the GL renderer on "very old drivers and hardware" as GTK upstream describes it
[1]. Affected applications will refuse to open with messages like:
(clapper:75218): Gsk-WARNING **: 16:04:34.205: The old GL renderer has been removed. Try GSK_RENDERER=help
(clapper:75218): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 16:04:35.334: gst_object_ref: assertion 'object != NULL' failed
(clapper:75218): GStreamer-GL-CRITICAL **: 16:04:35.334: gst_gl_memory_allocator_get_default: assertion 'GST_IS_GL_CONTEXT (context)' failed
**
GStreamer-GL:ERROR:../gst-libs/gst/gl/gstglbufferpool.c:151:gst_gl_buffer_pool_set_config: assertion failed: (priv->allocator)
Bail out! GStreamer-GL:ERROR:../gst-libs/gst/gl/gstglbufferpool.c:151:gst_gl_buffer_pool_set_config: assertion failed: (priv->allocator)
Aborted
[1] https://blog.gtk.org/2025/02/01/whats-new-in-gtk-winter-2025-edition/#:~:text=Spring%20Cleaning
Unfortunately, three platforms affected by this change are the imx8mq,
imx8mplus and the ls1028a as they are found in the open hardware computers MNT
Reform and MNT Pocket Reform. With this change in GTK, users of those platforms
are stuck with Bookworm. This is unfortunate, as there are not many laptops out
there which are as open as the products by MNT and my work for that platform
recently even received EUR 1.400,00 sponsorship by Debian itself [2]. It would
be nice if Debian Trixie continued supporting devices with Vivante GC7000
running GTK applications that require GL renderer.
[2] https://mister-muffin.de/reform/funding-application.html
could we please get your feedback on this bug?
It would be really nice if users of the very few reasonably open smartphone
(librem5) and laptop (mnt reform) platforms could continue to enjoy watching
1080p video in Debian Trixie despite the recent GTK 4.18 upload.
If you do not have time, I can also offer to NMU mesa with the patch by
Christian Gmeiner after agreement with the release team.
Thanks!
cheers, josch