Comment # 8 on bug 1004453 from Felix Miata

(In reply to Egbert Eich from comment #3)
> ...AFAIR, Felix is using a grub1 setup
> and starts the Xserver using 'startx' (probably as a regular user) with some
> scripts on top.

Your memory is correct, though using startx only applies on my test
installations, of which host a-865 is one, and runs no extra scripts at startx
time.

> Felix: Does it work when you do the same as 'root'?

Of late I've only ever logged in on a-865 as root. That host is only used to
see what works or not, mostly only inside the router except for zypper
updating.

(In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #1)
> Isn't the issue here, that Xorg is no longer run with root privileges? I'm
> afraid vga boot param is no longer been used since every driver switched to
> KMS.

Matrox doesn't respond to video= on cmdline, so vga= is how I was getting the
vttys to use a satisfactory mode - until this regression. Even on Intel, AMD
and NVidia hardware, vga= still does what it always did pre-KMS for the initial
stages of init. KMS only kicks in the video= parameter later in init. I don't
use Plymouth on anything unless forced (e.g. Mageia).