Re: [gentoo-user] X w/o suid root [Was: from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?]

[Simon Thelen]

On 16-12-16 at 15:58, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> After re-merging x11-base/xorg-server package with the new USE settings,
> first I tried what I have always done when running with suid; namely,
> starting X with an explicit vt argument, approximately thus:
>
> Xorg vt${vt} -nolisten tcp -s 0 -dpms
>
> where the vt variable it set dynamically, but it is actually the same vt
> from which I run the command.  This results in:
>
> [  2890.175] (++) using VT number 2
>
> [  2890.175] (WW) xf86OpenConsole: VT_ACTIVATE failed: Operation not permitted
> [  2890.175] (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> [  2890.175] (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Switching VT failed
> [  2890.175] (EE)
> [  2890.175] (EE)
Have you tried reading through [1] ? Specifically being in the
video/input groups. Also maybe check that you have modesetting built
into the kernel and maybe check Xorg.0.log about modesetting related
messages.

[..]
> I wonder what I'm missing.  Provisional suspects: the *kits are setting
> up perms for you in some odd non-Unixy but Xorg friendly way.
I don't have any of the *kits installed and it works fine here.
 
> Kernel 4.4.26, xorg-server 1.18.4.
Kernel 4.8.13, xorg-server 1.18.4, xf86-video-intel 2.99.917_p20161118
 
[1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Non_root_Xorg

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Simon Thelen