Re: [RFC PATCH] Only open the console if the video driver needs hardware access.

2009-10-02 Thread Eric Anholt
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 20:58 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:50:42 -0700 From: Jamey Sharp ja...@minilop.net xf86OpenConsole fails as non-root, at least on Linux. Since the xf86-video-dummy driver works fine without root privileges or console access, just don't

Re: [RFC PATCH] Only open the console if the video driver needs hardware access.

2009-10-02 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:21:22 -0700 Eric Anholt e...@anholt.net wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 20:58 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:50:42 -0700 From: Jamey Sharp ja...@minilop.net xf86OpenConsole fails as non-root, at least on Linux. Since the xf86-video-dummy

[RFC PATCH] Only open the console if the video driver needs hardware access.

2009-10-01 Thread Jamey Sharp
xf86OpenConsole fails as non-root, at least on Linux. Since the xf86-video-dummy driver works fine without root privileges or console access, just don't open the console. --- I wanted to see how to replace Xvfb and Xfake with an appropriate video driver for the xfree86 DDX, and needing root