From: Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]>

Stop suggesting to run Weston as root, it is only meant for debugging.
Instead, mention the two supported ways to run Weston on DRM and fbdev:
weston-launch helper and logind service.

Cc: "Ucan, Emre (ADITG/ESB)" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]>
---
 libweston/compositor-drm.c   | 3 ++-
 libweston/compositor-fbdev.c | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libweston/compositor-drm.c b/libweston/compositor-drm.c
index b641d61e..59c9b65d 100644
--- a/libweston/compositor-drm.c
+++ b/libweston/compositor-drm.c
@@ -4040,7 +4040,8 @@ drm_backend_create(struct weston_compositor *compositor,
                                                       seat_id, true);
        if (compositor->launcher == NULL) {
                weston_log("fatal: drm backend should be run "
-                          "using weston-launch binary or as root\n");
+                          "weston-launch binary, or your system should "
+                          "provide the logind D-Bus API.\n");
                goto err_compositor;
        }
 
diff --git a/libweston/compositor-fbdev.c b/libweston/compositor-fbdev.c
index 4b3605cf..fbab634b 100644
--- a/libweston/compositor-fbdev.c
+++ b/libweston/compositor-fbdev.c
@@ -736,8 +736,9 @@ fbdev_backend_create(struct weston_compositor *compositor,
        compositor->launcher =
                weston_launcher_connect(compositor, param->tty, "seat0", false);
        if (!compositor->launcher) {
-               weston_log("fatal: fbdev backend should be run "
-                          "using weston-launch binary or as root\n");
+               weston_log("fatal: fbdev backend should be run using "
+                          "weston-launch binary, or your system should "
+                          "provide the logind D-Bus API.\n");
                goto out_udev;
        }
 
-- 
2.13.6

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