Quoting Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > About wrong /dev/fb0 permissions, could someone investigate why X does not > find > the device if not world writable ? I was not able to track it down to the > point (strace is segfaulting early on X, Xsun, startx, ...). > Even with Xsun running suid I get the following error: "no screen found".
I ran startx under strace and the problem seems to be that /usr/bin/X11/Xsun is testing access permissions for /dev/fb[012] using the access() system call, which uses the real user ID instead of the effective user ID. I have never worried about X with my PC and therefore I don't know how it works, but I'd say the approach taken by Xsun is not the correct one. But again, I'm not very knowledgeable about how X works. Anybody cares to comment on this? Regarding the /dev/mouse symlink problem, I'd say it's better to keep the symlink (and bear the work to manage it). In this way applications don't have to worry about where the mouse is, whatever platform it's running in. True, there aren't that many applications using the moouse directly but why run the risk? After all, one more symlink is not a problem (famous last words). -- Hermano Cabral
