https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92542
Bug ID: 92542
Summary: Geode cannot be used on GNOME because it requires root
priviledges
Product: xorg
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Driver/geode
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
QA Contact: [email protected]
Recent GNOME releases have switched to launching X as a non-root user.
This fails on Geode beause Geode tries to access the following devices, all
typically owned by root:
$ ls -al /dev/dri/card0 /dev/fb0 /dev/cpu/0/msr
ls: cannot access /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
crw------- 1 root root 202, 0 Oct 19 23:06 /dev/cpu/0/msr
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 Oct 19 23:06 /dev/fb0
On Debian (and some other distributions) the Geode driver hereafter requires
the xserver-xorg-legacy wrapper to successfully launch with GDM-3. Other
display managers that launch X as root still work as expected.
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