Bug#802327: xserver-xorg-core: (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
Btw, is there any other X driver that is known to fail to launch as a
non-root user?
We might as well clone this bug for each of them and propose
"Recommends: xserver-xorg-legacy" as the solution in each case.
Cheers!
Martin-Éric
2015-10-21 22:50 GMT+03:00 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
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