On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 09:29:11 +0200
Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:29:58 +0000
> "Ucan, Emre (ADITG/ESB)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 

> > IMO, it is much explanatory to get an error like "Cannot open drm
> > device" than "weston cannot run as non-root user".  
> 
> That's true. The actual error messages you get when no launcher
> succeeds are:
> 
> "fatal: drm backend should be run using weston-launch binary or as root"
> "fatal: fbdev backend should be run using weston-launch binary or as root"
> 
> I would be quite happy to improve those error messages to be more
> helpful. I believe they were written before logind support existed.

Hi,

I'm actually writing a patch to improve these error messages myself.


Thanks,
pq

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