On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 1:07 AM Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: > > On 2020-04-14 21:36, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Yes, that seems right. I just added "-elogind" to make.conf and that's > > it. But I'm really curious about the framebuffer stuff. As for other > > stuff (mounting USB, etc), doing it by hand it's fine. > > One possible implication is that without one of these mystery packages, > you need the Xorg binary to be setuid root, and with them, you don't. > Just a hypothesis: I don't use either elogind or ConsoleKit, and my Xorg > is setuid root. :-( > > This also links back to my last question about firefox. It turned out > that the rare and random crashes stopped when I shifted from allowing X > to start on the first unused tty (which is the default) to starting it > on the tty where I'm already logged in. I'm thinking this is somehow > related to my user id and permissions on the tty. Possibly with one of > the login managers it is not an issue.
I start Xorg via xinit, on a forced VT. It works fine for me. But yes, I do have it suid root... Jorge
