Running The X.Org Server Without Root Privileges

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Running The X.Org Server Without Root Privileges

Besides talking about the X.Org Server development process and the X.Org Server 1.10 plans, Keith Packard also talked about not running the X.Org Server as root (also sometimes referred to as a "root-less X Server") during XDS Toulouse...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODYzMw

[box of rox]

I don't know about anyone else, but the audio on these recordings is atrocious. I hear ambient noise and typing so clearly that the discussion is drowned.

I appreciate the effort of covering the event and posting the video. But the audio needs significant improvement.

If anyone has transcripts of this session, I'd rather read those.

[RealNC]

Same here. I can't understand anything they're saying.

[KAMiKAZOW]

Due to YouTube limitations, the video is available in three parts.

Then don't use YouTube.

[drag]

There is nothing wrong with youtube. html5 support and it's easy to use clive to pull everything down.

Sound is a issue and probably the best bet you can do is do:
clive -f best youtube-url-blah

That'll get the best quality available and hopefully you can play around with levels or something to make ti easier to hear. mplayer is pretty decent for this sort of thing. See the equalizer audio filter.

[MùPùF]

Matt Dew may have some records from this session also.