Contributed by rueda on from the your-mileage-may-vary dept.
Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) has recently
committed
changes
which restore a certain amount of
startx(1)/xinit(1)
functionality for non-root users.
The commit messages explain the situation:
CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: kettenis@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/09/15 06:25:41 Modified files: etc/etc.amd64 : fbtab etc/etc.arm64 : fbtab etc/etc.hppa : fbtab etc/etc.i386 : fbtab etc/etc.loongson: fbtab etc/etc.luna88k: fbtab etc/etc.macppc : fbtab etc/etc.octeon : fbtab etc/etc.sgi : fbtab etc/etc.sparc64: fbtab Log message: Add ttyC4 to lost of devices to change when logging in on ttyC0 (and in some cases also the serial console) such that X can use it as its VT when running without root privileges. ok jsg@, matthieu@
CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: xenocara Changes by: kettenis@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/09/15 06:31:08 Modified files: xserver/hw/xfree86/common: xf86AutoConfig.c Log message: Add modesetting driver as a fall-back when appropriate such that we can use it when running withour root privileges which prevents us from scanning the PCI bus. This makes startx(1)/xinit(1) work again on modern systems with inteldrm(4), radeondrm(4) and amdgpu(4). In some cases this will result in using a different driver than with xenodm(4) which may expose issues (e.g. when we prefer the intel Xorg driver) or loss of acceleration (e.g. older cards supported by radeondrm(4)). ok jsg@, matthieu@
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