Thanks for the additional info. In that case, the fbdev driver ought to Recommends xserver-xorg-legacy (Depends seems too strong of a dependency, since it's mostly GDM3 that wants to launch X as non-root; lightdm doesn't).
Martin-Éric 2015-10-20 9:32 GMT+03:00 Julien Cristau <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 20:24:36 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > >> That's what I assumed too, except that X also fails to launch via gdm3 >> without the legacy wrapper if I remove the Geode driver and let the >> Xserver use its own choice of fbdev or its built-in modeline driver. >> > The modesetting driver requires a kernel driver, which there isn't for > geode; the fbdev driver requires root. > > Cheers, > Julien
