On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 05:09:23PM +0000, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote:
> On July 25, 2019 11:36:27 AM CDT, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On 7/25/19 11:08 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 06:59:10AM -0600, Roger Koehler via blfs-dev
> >wrote:
> >>> The latest LFS/BLFS doesn't work on my Libreboot X200 Tablet:
> >>>
> >>> Fatal server error:
> >>> [ 14887.874] (EE) parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0
> >(Permission
> >>> denied)
> >>>
[...]
> >> 
> >> Googling, this sounds like a non-suid Xorg with startx.  i.e. the
> >> switch --enable-install-setuid has been omitted.  Ah, I think that
> >> might have been briefly removed after the elogind merge (not sure),
> >> but it is certainly in the current book for both sysv and systemd.
> >> 
> >>  From one of my google results, with some video drivers (including
> >> your intel, but not modesetting!) non-suid X works in destop
> >> environments but not with startx.
> >
> >--enable-install-setuid was removed again, but I cannot confirm that it
> >
> 
Oh, I skimmed over the page, saw the wrapper switch and misread that
as the install switch.  I hadn't realised it had come out again.

> >works.  We still need to sort that out.  For now the easy way is to
> >
> >sudo -E chmod u+s $XORG_PREFIX/libexec/Xorg
> >
> >   -- Bruce
> 
> It really shouldn't be necessary with any of the drivers in BLFS, but I've 
> made a mistake someplace and, thus far, I have been unable to locate it. 
> Let's just put it back in by default for now until that ah ha moment comes of 
> it's own accord.
> 
> --DJ

The gentoo thread (from last year) which I was reading suggested that
startx, but also DEs (depending on the driver, intel was ok,
modesetting was not) were broken at that time.

But apparently some people have been using recent versions of the
book on desktops without this problem.

ĸen
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