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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: data <dataklei@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Fw: Error
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* data <dataklei@home.com> [001128 21:01] wrote:
> >> I got XFree86 installed in FreeBSD4.2
> >> When I try to run "XFree86 -configure" i get the following output/error:
> >> XF86EnableIO: failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O
> >>
> >> heres the error in the log:
> >>
> >> checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (operation not permitted)
> >> linear framebuffer access unavailable
> >>
> >> any idea how to fix this?
> >> I have checked the faw and posted questions on newsgroups and
> freebsddiary.org and no one seems to know. Please help!
> >> thanks,
> >> data
> >
> >Not my expertise, maybe someone else will chip in, but it
> >says it's a permissions problem, which would suggest that /dev/mem
> >has incorrect permissions or you are not root when you run
> >XFree86 -configure"
> >
> Hey... I have tried everything I know and no one has any idea why I get this
> error.
> I decided to forward you this email which I sent to the XFree86 dev team (or
> whoever xfree86@ goes to). As you can see they didn't know how to fix it.
> You guys have any idea?

This belongs on -questions.

Either run "XFree86 -configure" as root, or if you running it as
root and having problems, then make sure you haven't raised the
kernel security level.

-Alfred


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