On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:03:23 +0200 bendeguz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! > > Any of you guys(or girls) using a rootless x server? By "rootless" do you meant that you want to start xorg a a user and not root? I have always started xorg with a bootscript that does: su - andy -c xinit 2&> /var/log/x-session.errors IE, it uses "su - andy" to run xinit > I still have the old radeon 7500, so it should work > with kms. Well, actually I'm using a kms enabled kernel > but no changes have been made to userland so far. > I'm wondering which x server could work? I guess it's > >1.7.5. > It's not a big problem if direct > rendering is not working, first of all > i'd like a rootless x. > I don't know much about direct rendering, the only 3d app I use is Google Earth (on 32 bit systems). It seems to work OK. If I start xorg as a user or root it doesn't seem to make any difference. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
