This file describes how to build and run wayland. See NOTES for what wayland is or maybe will be some day. Wayland requires the eagle EGL stack available from git://people.freedesktop.org/~krh/eagle and currently assumes that eagle is checked out in a sibling directory, for example: ~krh/src/wayland and ~krh/src/eagle Eagle should work with a recent DRI driver from mesa, but I have mesa repo with an eagle branch here: git://people.freedesktop.org/~krh/mesa which provides and experimental DRI CopyBuffer extension, that lets wayland use the DRI driver and the hardware for implementing buffer swaps. Eagle needs to be compiled against the dri_interface.h from this branch to be able to use the CopyBuffer extension. To run wayland you currently need intel hardware, a kernel with gem and kernel modesetting, and it is necessary to set a couple of environment variables. First, set LD_LIBRARY_PATH: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD:$PWD/../eagle Yes, this sucks, but libtool sucks more. Then to let eagle pick up the custom dri driver, set export EAGLE_DRIVER_PATH=$PWD/../mesa/lib and finally set up the path to the evdev device to use as a pointer device: export WAYLAND_POINTER=/dev/by-id/whatever-it's-called-event-mouse If you haven't already, load the i915 driver with modesetting: modprobe i915 modeset=1 You may need to unload it first, if it's loaded already. Also, on Fedora, there may be a bogus /etc/modprobe.d/i915modeset preventing the modeset paramater from reaching the module. Nuke it. At this point you should be able to launch wayland and a couple of clients. Try something like: ./wayland & ./background & ./flower & ./flower & ./flower & ./window & ./pointer & Maybe some day there'll be a script that does all this. Some day... And after all this work it may still not work or even oops your kernel. It's very much work in progress, so be prepared. cheers, Kristian