[Xorg-driver-geode] [Bug 92542] New: Geode cannot be used on GNOME because it requires root priviledges

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92542

            Bug ID: 92542
           Summary: Geode cannot be used on GNOME because it requires root
                    priviledges
           Product: xorg
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Driver/geode
          Assignee: xorg-driver-geode at lists.x.org
          Reporter: martin-eric.racine at iki.fi
        QA Contact: xorg-driver-geode at lists.x.org

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.

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