how to use wsfb and non-root?

Michael Lorenz macallan at netbsd.org
Tue Jun 20 19:52:32 PDT 2006


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Hello,

> But the X server has also to be built in a way to not require root. 
> For now on the BSD, this is far from perfect, because the X server 
> always tries to probe for VGA registers and a PCI bus (on i386 at 
> least) and access errors there are fatal.

The FatalError() when failing to open /dev/pci0 is clearly bogus - 
think SBus Suns which don't have PCI buses but are still supported. I 
already changed that in NetBSD's xsrc. Just downgraded the error to 
non-fatal and added a return there.

have fun
Michael
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