From: Tobias Heider <tobias.heider@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: NEW: wayland/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
To: Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 21:36:48 +0100

On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 09:27:02PM GMT, Volker Schlecht wrote:
> On 2025-03-04 17:13, Tobias Heider wrote:
> > here is a new port for niri [1], a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
> > heavily inspired by the PaperWM extension for Gnome.
> 
> Very cool, unfortunately it doesn't start here. My first guess would be a
> permission issue, but sway starts without a problem.
> 
> Here's what I get, and then it hangs:
> 
> ␛[2m2025-03-04T20:03:38.428046Z␛[0m ␛[32m INFO␛[0m ␛[2mniri␛[0m␛[2m:␛[0m starting version 25.02 (unknown commit)
> ␛[2m2025-03-04T20:03:38.486812Z␛[0m ␛[34mDEBUG␛[0m ␛[2mniri_config␛[0m␛[2m:␛[0m loaded config from "<VALID PATH TO VALID CONFIG>"
> ␛[2m2025-03-04T20:03:38.549308Z␛[0m ␛[33m WARN␛[0m ␛[2mniri::backend::tty␛[0m␛[2m:␛[0m error getting the render node for the primary GPU; proceeding anyway
> ␛[2m2025-03-04T20:03:38.549328Z␛[0m ␛[32m INFO␛[0m ␛[2mniri::backend::tty␛[0m␛[2m:␛[0m using as the render node: "/dev/dri/card0"
> ␛[2m2025-03-04T20:03:38.691720Z␛[0m ␛[34mDEBUG␛[0m ␛[2mniri::backend::tty␛[0m␛[2m:␛[0m device added: 22272 "/dev/dri/card0"
> ␛[2m2025-03-04T20:03:38.691779Z␛[0m ␛[33m WARN␛[0m ␛[2mniri::backend::tty␛[0m␛[2m:␛[0m error adding device: Failed to open device: Operation not permitted (os error 1)
> ␛[2m2025-03-04T20:03:38.691859Z␛[0m ␛[32m INFO␛[0m ␛[2mniri␛[0m␛[2m:␛[0m listening on Wayland socket: wayland-1
> ␛[2m2025-03-04T20:03:38.691862Z␛[0m ␛[32m INFO␛[0m ␛[2mniri␛[0m␛[2m:␛[0m IPC listening on: <MY HOME DIR>/.local/run/niri.wayland-1.36264.sock

Can you try adding:

debug {
    render-drm-device "/dev/dri/renderD128"
}

to your config.kdl and see if that works?