Bug#861683: Install xserver-xorg-legacy by default for stretch

2017-05-10 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff 
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 01:40:42PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 10.05.2017 um 07:32 schrieb Moritz Muehlenhoff:
> > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 07:39:37PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Same is true for users of startx. They need the suid wrapper provided by
> >> xserver-xorg-legacy in such a case.
> 
> such a case == a non-KMS driver being in use.
> 
> > That's not true. I use the text mode console nearly all the time and only 
> > start X as needed via startx, that works fine without the setuid wrapper.
> 
> What driver do you use?

I'm using the Intel driver. I thought you wanted to state that startx in 
general requires the legacy wrapper. Of course, the legacy driver is required
with a non-KMS driver in any case.

Cheers,
Moritz

Bug#861683: Install xserver-xorg-legacy by default for stretch

2017-05-10 Thread Michael Biebl 
Am 10.05.2017 um 07:32 schrieb Moritz Muehlenhoff:
> On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 07:39:37PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Same is true for users of startx. They need the suid wrapper provided by
>> xserver-xorg-legacy in such a case.

such a case == a non-KMS driver being in use.

> That's not true. I use the text mode console nearly all the time and only 
> start X as needed via startx, that works fine without the setuid wrapper.

What driver do you use?


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Bug#861683: Install xserver-xorg-legacy by default for stretch

2017-05-09 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff 
On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 07:39:37PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Same is true for users of startx. They need the suid wrapper provided by
> xserver-xorg-legacy in such a case.

That's not true. I use the text mode console nearly all the time and only 
start X as needed via startx, that works fine without the setuid wrapper.

Cheers,
Moritz

Bug#861683: Install xserver-xorg-legacy by default for stretch

2017-05-02 Thread Michael Biebl 
Source: xorg
Version: 1:7.7+18
Severity: serious

With virtualbox-dkms gone for stretch, trying to install GNOME inside
Virtualbox will lead to gdm failing to start, as it tries to run Xorg as
unprivileged user. This requires a KMS compatible driver though.
Same is true for users of startx. They need the suid wrapper provided by
xserver-xorg-legacy in such a case.

Not having the Xorg.wrap suid wrapper is a worthwile goal, but I guess
we are not quite there yet, as there are still to many popular cases
where it's needed.

I would thus like to see xserver-xorg-legacy added as a Recommends to
one of the xorg packages.

This means it would be installed on upgrades and new installations but
users with a KMS compatible driver can uninstall it.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64
 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages xserver-xorg depends on:
ii  x11-xkb-utils7.7+3+b1
ii  xkb-data 2.19-1
ii  xserver-xorg-core2:1.19.3-1
ii  xserver-xorg-input-all   1:7.7+18
ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev [xorg-driver-input] 1:2.10.5-1
ii  xserver-xorg-input-libinput [xorg-driver-input]  0.23.0-2
ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom [xorg-driver-input] 0.34.0-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-all   1:7.7+18
ii  xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu [xorg-driver-video]1.2.0-1+b1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ati [xorg-driver-video]   1:7.8.0-1+b1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev [xorg-driver-video] 1:0.4.4-1+b5
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nouveau [xorg-driver-video]   1:1.0.13-3
ii  xserver-xorg-video-radeon [xorg-driver-video]1:7.8.0-1+b1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vesa [xorg-driver-video]  1:2.3.4-1+b2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vmware [xorg-driver-video]1:13.2.1-1+b1

Versions of packages xserver-xorg recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri  13.0.6-1+b2

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