On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:21:22 -0700
Eric Anholt e...@anholt.net wrote:
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 20:58 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:50:42 -0700
From: Jamey Sharp ja...@minilop.net
xf86OpenConsole fails as non-root, at least on Linux. Since the
xf86-video-dummy driver works fine without root privileges or
console access, just don't open the console.
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I wanted to see how to replace Xvfb and Xfake with an appropriate
video driver for the xfree86 DDX, and needing root privileges was
obnoxious. Aside from that problem, the existing dummy driver
seems well on the way to doing the job.
But I'm guessing this is the wrong way to solve this problem.
I suspect so. I think for example the wsfb driver on OpenBSD
doesn't need hardware access in the xorgHWAccess sense, but still
needs console access.
This seems related to jbarnes's non-root X stuff
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-July/001293.html
Perhaps we need a flag for this ddx needs console access as well as
this ddx needs io ports and such
Yeah, that would be an easy enough flag to add to the get hardware
interfaces function if needed. Another option would be to mess with
the distro console ownership scripts to avoid any permission problems.
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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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