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Geode cannot be used with GNOME because it requires root priviledges

Submitted by Martin-Éric Racine @q-funk

Assigned to X.org Geode Mailing List

Link to original bug (#92542)

Description

Recent GNOME releases have switched to launching X as a non-root user.

This fails on Geode beause Geode tries to access the following devices, all typically owned by root:

$ ls -al /dev/dri/card0 /dev/fb0 /dev/cpu/0/msr
ls: cannot access /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
crw------- 1 root root  202, 0 Oct 19 23:06 /dev/cpu/0/msr
crw-rw---- 1 root video  29, 0 Oct 19 23:06 /dev/fb0

On Debian (and some other distributions) the Geode driver hereafter requires the xserver-xorg-legacy wrapper to successfully launch with GDM-3. Other display managers that launch X as root still work as expected.

Edited by Alan Coopersmith
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