On 02/08/2019 12:35, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote:

> Regarding the hardware, what is tested in xorg-wrapper.c is whether you can
> call ioctl(fd, DRM_IOCTL_MODE_GETRESOURCES, &res) with fd a file descriptor
> pointing to /dev/dri/card0. If this is possible, root privileges are dropped,
> and Xorg is run as a regular user. I'll try to see if I can find information
> about this ioctl
> 

According to [1], the nvidia proprietary driver does not support this ioctl.
See also [2].

So if you have this driver, then startx should be starting X, even with the
sed applied.

Pierre

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1431141
[2]
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1046175/linux/nvidia-drm-does-not-support-drm_ioctl_mode_getresources-/
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