Bug 92542

Summary: Geode cannot be used with GNOME because it requires root priviledges
Product: xorg Reporter: Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine>
Component: Driver/geodeAssignee: X.org Geode Mailing List <xorg-driver-geode>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: X.org Geode Mailing List <xorg-driver-geode>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Geode LX KMS driver for Linux kernel none

Description Martin-Éric Racine 2015-10-19 17:20:21 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Martin-Éric Racine 2015-10-28 07:16:44 UTC 
Someone had started developing a KMS driver for the Geode LX:

https://gitorious.org/lx

This would at least cover the OLPC XO-1 and a fairly large number of recent thin client terminals, but it would obviously leave the GX1 and GX2 hardware in the dust.
Comment 2 Zoltán Böszörményi 2015-11-24 12:55:44 UTC 
(In reply to Martin-Éric Racine from comment #1)
> Someone had started developing a KMS driver for the Geode LX:
> 
> https://gitorious.org/lx
> 
> This would at least cover the OLPC XO-1 and a fairly large number of recent
> thin client terminals, but it would obviously leave the GX1 and GX2 hardware
> in the dust.

This is not available anymore. Can you please attach the latest repo tarball to this ticket?

I have two still widely used US-made POS machines with this Geode LX chip.
At least one of them actually makes use of the multiplexed DDC/UART2 gpio line for the serial connected touchscreen. Can we have a way to use both DDC control and UART2? E.g. switching to DDC only momentarily while initializing the Geode video and allow the UART2 most of the time?
Comment 3 Martin-Éric Racine 2015-11-24 12:59:32 UTC 
The DDC probing issue was filed as a separate bug. Please comment on it there, not here.
Comment 4 Martin-Éric Racine 2015-11-24 13:04:25 UTC 
Created attachment 120083 [details]
Geode LX KMS driver for Linux kernel
Comment 5 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-10 20:42:32 UTC 
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