<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Wayland/weston are installed without the setuid bit in ~/install/... I am able to launch weston under X with a script that sets the environment to look there before running it. I can then run clients by typing them into the weston-terminal I can launch from there, or by running from outside using a similar script to set the environment. However I cannot run it outside of X. Perhaps I just need some instructions on how to do so. The best result I have had was by altering weston to chown root.root and to turn on the setuid bit, and then running from a pty I switch to with Ctrl+Alt+1. In this case it certainly takes over the screen and displays a hash of colors and lines that seem to be the same colors as the X display. However nothing works and I cannot get out of it except by rebooting. Previous versions of wayland I could get out of by typing Ctrl+Alt+8 to get back to X, then Ctrl+Alt+1 to get the pty again, and then ^C, but now nothing works. I think perhaps I need to turn off X but I'm not sure how you do that! If I don't have to turn off X, can I run it by just clearing $DISPLAY before running it? </blockquote><div> You shouldn't have to stop X or change permissions on the weston binary. It should be enough to run src/weston from the weston source directory with escalated permissions, outside of X (in a tty). </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> I tried variations on setting suid on other programs but none of that makes any difference. There is also weston-launch in the newest git repository, but all I get is: weston-launch: Permission denied. You should.. - enable systemd session support for weston-launch. - add yourself to the 'weston-launch' group. I have no idea how to do this. </blockquote><div> I wouldn't worry much about this right now since you're using ubuntu and ubuntu currently does not support systemd. (See <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/systemd">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/systemd</a> for more information). Weston should work fine in drm but it sounds like your graphics drivers are broken. Regards, Scott </div></div>