Bug#803667: upgrade-reports: No Xorg: "no screens found(EE)"

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 11/06/2015 11:56 PM, Niels Thykier wrote:
>
Thanks for giving this some time Neils, it would be a shame if I had to 
stop using Debian due to this bug.
> Hi Ray,
>
> Are you using the setuid version of X11 or the new non-setuid version?
> And in the latter case, do you have libpam-systemd installed?

Yes, and reinstalled with no change.
> Possibly related information:
> > xorg-server (2:1.17.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> >
> >    The Xorg server is no longer setuid root by default.  This change
> > reduces the
> >    risk of privilege escalation due to X server bugs, but has some side
> > effects:
> >
> >    * it relies on logind and libpam-systemd
> >    * it relies on a kernel video driver (so the userspace component doesn't
> >      touch the hardware directly)
> >    * it needs X to run on the virtual console (VT) it was started from
> >    * it changes the location for storing the Xorg log from /var/log/ to
> >      ~/.local/share/xorg/
> >
> >    On systems where those are not available, the new xserver-xorg-legacy
> > package
> >    is needed to allow X to run with elevated privileges.  See the
> >    Xwrapper.config(5) manual page for configuration details.
> >
> >   -- Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>  Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:54:11
Everything there reinstalled too, but no joy.

I wonder if I can move away from 'legacy' entirely?