Btw, is there any other X driver that is known to fail to launch as a non-root user?
We might as well clone this bug for each of them and propose "Recommends: xserver-xorg-legacy" as the solution in each case. Cheers! Martin-Éric 2015-10-21 22:50 GMT+03:00 Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi>: > 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 <jcris...@debian.org>: >> 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