On Dec 23, 2015, at 6:28 PM, Michel Dänzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23.12.2015 04:49, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >> Herminio Hernandez Jr. ha scritto: >>> Are you running Sid? >> >> yes, I do. >> >> I just installed legacy server and now I have X again. >> >> I really dislike certain choices debian and more generally most Linux >> distros are taking... > > Let's clear up some FUD here: > > systemd is only required for running Xorg as a non-root user, which is > desirable from a security POV. > > Running Xorg as non-root is only possible using a KMS kernel driver. For > configurations which don't / can't use a KMS kernel driver (or systemd), > Xorg still needs to run as root, just as it always did before. That's > what the xserver-xorg-legacy package is for. > > Now, the fact that the xserver-xorg-legacy package wasn't automatically > installed in this case may be a Debian packaging bug. Feel free to > report a bug against the xserver-xorg-video-mach64 package. > -- > Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com > Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer Thank you, Michel, for explaining this. I’ve been wondering about the relationship between Xorg and systemd for a while now. This makes it a lot clearer! Rick
