[cairo] cairo-glesv2 and pango: CAIRO_STATUS_DEVICE_ERROR

[Uli Schlachter]

Just a quick reply for the mailing list archives: This was now reported
as https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/issues/369

Cheers,
Uli

(who has no clue about GL and has his local cairo built without GL support)

On 01.07.19 14:01, Christopher Pahl wrote:
> Hello dear cairo devs,
> 
> I need your help troubleshooting what possibly could be a bug in cairo.
> 
> I'm developing an embedded UI that uses cairo for drawing its contents and
> pango for layouting text.
> For hardware acceleration I'm planning to use the cairo-gl surface backend
> (--enable-glesv2 to be exact), since that
> is supported well on the target hardware (RaPi 3b+) and showed promising
> results overall on first tests (big kudos for that!)
> The UI will run inside a weston compositor, as native wayland client, using
> EGL to get a OpenGL ES 2.0 context.
> 
> Sadly, I get pretty weird behavior related to font rendering. There are
> three possible states:
> 
> - The UI totally works. This was mostly the case only when development
> started.
> - The UI refuses to start, every call to cairo_show_text() or
> pango_cairo_show_layout().
> - The UI starts, but everything drawn before the text calls is blacked out,
> only the elements drawn after are visible.
> 
> I tried to put a minimal example of this here:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/sahib/320c2fdfce983ffaf2a931940bd68318
> 
> The behavior is the same on my development machine and on the target
> hardware. Now, here's the catch:
> 
> If I compile cairo with --enable-glesv3, everything works perfectly fine on
> my machine (except that glesv3 does not make sense on the Pi...)
> I'm happy to provide more data if required, but I'm a bit stuck here on
> what to try. It would be very nice if you could push me in the right
> direction.
> 
> For reference:
> 
> - both cairo 1.16 and latest cairo master from git show the same issue
> - I'm using weston 6.0.0
> - I'm using pango 1.43.0 and freetype 2.10.0
> 
> Best regards,
> Chris
> 
> 


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