On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 03:27:41AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote:
> People who read -dev will know that in the past few weeks I've had
> failures trying to use rootless X on sysvinit : on an intel machine
> X started but the keyboard and mouse did not have the necessary
> perms for me to use them. On two machines with ATI (radeon)
> graphics I could not startx, it just died.
>
Update, for those who don't read -dev.
Pierre has pointed out an error in my build of xorg-server. I'm
sure that with that corrected the future intel builds will work
fine.
But for my ati/radeon and amdgpu machines that is not the answer.
Doug has now pointed to a hack for using xorg-server's own
modesetting driver with rootless xorg, and the ati/radeon and amdgpu
drivers use a similar root-only code path (unlike intel and nouveau).
With that the rebuilt server now allows me to run rootless X on my
current amdgpu machine.
ĸen
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