non-privileged X and non-free drivers

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 02:30 -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But I did a quick test, and, assuming I'm doing everything right, it
> > seems that nvidia-driver (352.30-1 from experimental) works fine when
> > Xorg is not ran as root.
> >
> > I installed the following from experimental:
> >
> > xorg
> > xserver-xorg
> > xserver-xorg-core
> > xserver-xorg-common
> > x11-common
> >
> > Rebooted, killed my gdm3 session (Gnome 3.14, I'm running Jessie) and
> > ran "startx" from tty1 as normal user:
> >
> > $ ps aux | grep -i xorg
> > luca      2448  3.3  0.8 184220 65420 tty1     S    23:29
> > 0:03 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -nolisten tcp :0 vt1
> > -auth /tmp/serverauth.p6yaPygdsO
> >
> > X session came up just fine with the right configuration, 2D and 3D
> > applications ran ok as well. Didn't spot any error in the journal.
> >
> > Anything else I should test/look for? Any other package I should install
> > from experimental?
> 
> Luca, just a thought, were you testing with an Nvidia Optimus-enabled
> system with bumblebee installed? Doing so means the primary X display
> is driven by intel not nvidia...although I'm not sure if this actually
> makes a difference or not regarding the setuid wrapper.

Hi Vincent,

No, this was on a desktop system running only on the Nvidia card, not an
Optimus one.

One thing to mention is that I only tried with the 352.30 in
experimental. Just to be sure, I'll try to find time later tonight and
test with 340.76 that we have in unstable at the moment.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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