Weston on RPi: running as non-root

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:47:12 +0200
Mika Boström <mika.bostrom at nomovok.com> wrote:

> On 01/04/13 13:30, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> > That is strange. Why does Weston need any root access for you? Are you
> > perhaps running it via remote login, not local?
> 
> That could be it. I'm doing everything I can over ssh. It's worked
> marvelously for intel+DRM case, so I naturally wanted the same ease with
> RPi. Being able to copy-paste from terminal to terminal is something I
> tend to miss quite soon. (Error messages are valuable.)

Ah, that must be it. I guess the distribution has been configured to
change the device permissions on login, so that e.g. a locally logged in
user has access to evdev devices.

> > IIRC, I have never built weston-launch for RPi, I do *not* set weston
> > setuid root, and I simply run 'weston' as the 'pi' user, and it works.
> 
> With weston-launch my setup works quite nicely. I had never even tried
> your approach, but that certainly works too. Verified it just a few
> minutes ago.

Good to know. I thought I would have to modify weston-launch to avoid
the DRM set master stuff, since RPi has no DRM.


Thanks,
pq