Bug#802327: xserver-xorg-core: (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

Thanks for the additional info.

In that case, the fbdev driver ought to Recommends xserver-xorg-legacy
(Depends seems too strong of a dependency, since it's mostly GDM3 that
wants to launch X as non-root; lightdm doesn't).

Martin-Éric

2015-10-20 9:32 GMT+03:00 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 20:24:36 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>
>> That's what I assumed too, except that X also fails to launch via gdm3
>> without the legacy wrapper if I remove the Geode driver and let the
>> Xserver use its own choice of fbdev or its built-in modeline driver.
>>
> The modesetting driver requires a kernel driver, which there isn't for
> geode; the fbdev driver requires root.
>
> Cheers,
> Julien