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title="NEW - Geode cannot be used on GNOME because it requires root priviledges"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92542">92542</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Geode cannot be used on GNOME because it requires root priviledges
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<th>Product</th>
<td>xorg
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Other
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Driver/geode
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>xorg-driver-geode@lists.x.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>martin-eric.racine@iki.fi
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>xorg-driver-geode@lists.x.org
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<pre>Recent GNOME releases have switched to launching X as a non-root user.
This fails on Geode beause Geode tries to access the following devices, all
typically owned by root:
$ ls -al /dev/dri/card0 /dev/fb0 /dev/cpu/0/msr
ls: cannot access /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
crw------- 1 root root 202, 0 Oct 19 23:06 /dev/cpu/0/msr
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 Oct 19 23:06 /dev/fb0
On Debian (and some other distributions) the Geode driver hereafter requires
the xserver-xorg-legacy wrapper to successfully launch with GDM-3. Other
display managers that launch X as root still work as expected.</pre>
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