Comment 10 for bug 1533265

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Alfonso Sanchez-Beato (alfonsosanchezbeato) wrote :

@penk apparently /dev/vchiq can be accessed in a confined app by connecting to the opengl interface:

https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/master/interfaces/builtin/opengl.go#L43

You would still need to run it as root, but I think that is fine as you are using EGLFS, which is the windowing system in your case (you are taking full control of the display).