Bug#1110814: gnome-remote-desktop on Debian 13 doesn't use GPU rendering, while Fedora 42, ALMALinux 10 does

[Alessandro Astone]

This is tracked upstream here: 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/issues/224

And I have a work-in-progress here: 
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/38516

On 11/08/2025 10:22, Yong Yang wrote:
> Package: gnome-remote-desktop
> Version: 48.1-4
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: yy.young at gmail.com
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>
>     * What led up to the situation?
>
> I installed Debian 13 with gnome desktop as virtual machine on Mac Studio M1
> ultra, tried both UMT and Parallels virtulization.
> When checking the about page, it says, graphics is "virgl (Apple M1 Ultra
> (Compat))".
> However, after enabled remote desktop, and connected by windows mstsc, and then
> while I checkthe about page again, the graphics is "software rendering".
>
> But for Fedora 42 and ALMALinux 10, the graphics is always "virgl (Apple M1
> Ultra (Compat))".
>
>     * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>       ineffective)?
>
>
>     * What was the outcome of this action?
>
>
>     * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
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>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 13.0
>    APT prefers stable-updates
>    APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-arm64 (SMP w/10 CPU threads)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages gnome-remote-desktop depends on:
> ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-5
> ii  fuse3                                        3.17.2-3
> ii  init-system-helpers                          1.68
> ii  libc6                                        2.41-12
> ii  libcairo2                                    1.18.4-1+b1
> ii  libei1                                       1.3.901-1
> ii  libepoxy0                                    1.5.10-2
> ii  libfreerdp-server3-3                         3.15.0+dfsg-2.1
> ii  libfreerdp3-3                                3.15.0+dfsg-2.1
> ii  libfuse3-4                                   3.17.2-3
> ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.84.3-1
> ii  libmutter-16-0                               48.4-2
> ii  libnotify4                                   0.8.6-1
> ii  libopus0                                     1.5.2-2
> ii  libpipewire-0.3-0t64                         1.4.2-1
> ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        126-2
> ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.21.7-1
> ii  libsystemd0                                  257.7-1
> ii  libtss2-esys-3.0.2-0t64                      4.1.3-1.2
> ii  libtss2-mu-4.0.1-0t64                        4.1.3-1.2
> ii  libtss2-rc0t64                               4.1.3-1.2
> ii  libtss2-tctildr0t64                          4.1.3-1.2
> ii  libva-drm2                                   2.22.0-3
> ii  libva2                                       2.22.0-3
> ii  libvulkan1                                   1.4.309.0-1
> ii  libwinpr3-3                                  3.15.0+dfsg-2.1
> ii  libxkbcommon0                                1.7.0-2
> ii  pipewire                                     1.4.2-1
> ii  systemd [systemd-tmpfiles]                   257.7-1
> ii  wireplumber                                  0.5.8-2
>
> gnome-remote-desktop recommends no packages.
>
> gnome-remote-desktop suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>