On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 01:38:31 -0700, Sunny Sachanandani wrote: > I also faced this problem after installing GNOME on Debian stretch running > on Virtualbox which uses the vesa driver unless you install the guest > additions. I came across this page describing how rootless X11 is supposed > to work: http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/14268.html > > Here's the important bit: > > > When the Xorg binary is no longer suid root, UMS drivers will not work. > To solve this there is a new suid-wrapper called Xorg.wrap which is suid > root, when installed this wrapper will get called in stead of the real X > server, and it will check if there are KMS capable cards in the system, if > KMS capable cards are found it will drop all elevated rights and execute > the X server as a normal user. If no KMS capable cards are found it will > execute the X server with root rights, allowing old UMS drivers, such as > the proprietary drivers for some cards, or the vesa driver to work. > > Can the X11 maintainers please implement something like this? Or borrow > from upstream if it already exists? > It exists, it's in the xserver-xorg-legacy package.
Cheers, Julien
