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

[Yang Yong]

Thanks very much for working on this.
After going through the thread, as a temporary solution, I added my account
to "render" group,  then GPU rendering works for gnome remote desktop.

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM Alessandro Astone <
alessandro.astone at canonical.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> > *** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
> >
> >
> > -- 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
> >
>
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