I may need to start following current.  I'm seeing a theme in development
where mesa has to be replaced and patched to address various problems...  I
wanted to fire up gnome3 so I can try using google drive as a filesystem.
I may put this on hold and try it later.

I'm pretty thrilled with the new WindowMaker..

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 3:29 AM, Justin Haynes <jus...@justinhaynes.com>
wrote:

> I consolidated /usr/local onto /usr becuase of a sizing issue.  Actually,
> in liu of resizing, I moved files, deleted slices and then created a larger
> /usr and smaller /home to accomodate more programs.  So I just checked and
> /usr doesn't have suid:
>
> ff18b54934f6a0f8.f /usr ffs rw,nodev 1 2
>
> And speaking of permissions, I did check /etc/fbtab to amd made sure
> /dev/drm0 was being owned by me so that drm would work in X:
>
> /dev/ttyC0      0600
>  
> /dev/console:/dev/wskbd:/dev/wskbd0:/dev/wsmouse:/dev/wsmouse0:/dev/ttyCcfg:/dev/drm0:/dev/drm1:/dev/drm2:/dev/drm3
>
> and i confirmed with glxgears and other programs that demand 3d graphics
> as well. During on one of my previous tests, I must not have started from
> the first virtual terminal, so I was getting permissions errors on drm, and
> graphics were running very slowly.  This was why.
>
> -Justin
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 2:25 AM, David Dahlberg <
> david.dahlb...@fkie.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>
>> Am Freitag, den 29.07.2016, 00:26 -0500 schrieb Justin Haynes:
>>
>> > The problem is that when i attempt ot start Gnome using gdm, I get
>> > nothing
>> > but X Windows with a black background and the X mouse cursor.
>>
>> Had a similar problem lately.
>>
>> Please check fstab(5), whether you have nosuid configured to /usr/local.
>> Seems something changed recently, such that slock, gnome-settings-daemon
>> and (gnome|gdm)-session-something need suid.
>
>
>

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