Le 13/01/2016 18:44, Rainer Weikusat a écrit :
Didier Kryn <[email protected]> writes:
Just received "Linux Update". One of the articles is about the
release of kernel version 4.4.
Included in the new kernel is "A new kernel mode-setting (KMS)
driver from Broadcom".
I gave a look at Wikipedia about Kernel-based mode-setting. The
article in the French Wikipedia states that, amongst other advantages,
KMS permits to *run the X server without root priviledge*.
Kernel mode-setting has existed for a while and it's mainly supposed to
enable people to "do graphics" without having to resort to writing
another X driver, thereby making it yet more difficult to sell wayland.
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Sure it's not new, but for Broadcom. But why the hell do we still
have the only alternative of either run the X server with root
priviledge or to run it under Systemd?
Didier
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