[bug#50563] [PATCH [0/2] gnu: GDM: Add Wayland support

[Josselin Poiret]

On Thursday, September 30th, 2021 at 9:41 AM, Mathieu Othacehe 
<othacehe@gnu.org> wrote:

> Now, I also tried to run Sway (by adding it to the operating-system
> packages list). It is proposed in the GDM selection box at login which
> is nice, however all I get is a black screen with a frozen mouse
> pointer after that.
> There's a bunch of errors in /var/log/messages and
> /var/log/gdm/greeter.log but I'm not sure if some are relevant here.

After looking around, this is because in the `wip-gnome40-wayland` branch the 
`sway` package has been upgraded to 1.6, introducing a regression with the 
bochs-drm driver that is used in qemu by default.
If you start qemu with `-vga virtio`, sway starts as usual.
This was reported upstream at https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6244