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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:38:59 +0100
From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To: Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org>
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:32:07AM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote:
> I just upgraded from 5.2.1 to 5.3.  When running startx, it ends up with 
> this error ->
> 
> Fatal server error:
> xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O
>
[...]

device io etc.
are not in your kernel config or are not loaded.

Marc