running Xorg as non-root (with xserver-xorg-video-fbdev)

Sebastian Krzyszkowiak dos at dosowisko.net
Thu Sep 9 20:03:06 CEST 2010


On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 20:05, Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors at iki.fi> wrote:
> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org> writes:
>> I expect that would be more because it tries to read /dev/input/event3
>> (or 4 or both) and perhaps doesn't have enough privileges?
>
> No it's because it uses the accelerometer which is a LED device and
> thus chown/chmod can not be used to grant permissions.

I think you mean vibrator, which is controlled by sysfs interface.

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
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