Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:26:34 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov <y.pankov@irbis.net.ru> To: Arindam <arindam.mukerjee@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11 <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xorg Configuration trouble: FreeBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <1158053194.37140.7.camel@sierra.irbis.net.ru> In-Reply-To: <d85a51ff0609110640l4c56f159q4df5fc70382b1463@mail.gmail.com> References: <d85a51ff0609110640l4c56f159q4df5fc70382b1463@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 19:10 +0530, Arindam wrote: > I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a > lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII > box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting > it with RHEL4.3. My box is rather old ... P3 733 Mhz with 256 megs of > SDRAM@100MHz (actually 384 ... but that's another story), and I > installed FreeBSD on the first 6.5 Gigs of my Seagate harddrive ... > connected to the Primary master IDE interface. > > Now I had these two FreeBSD 5.4 ISOs ... CD1 and CD2, and I booted > from CD1 directly and did the install. There is no automatic X > configuration in the installer so I tried running it manually. > > 1. I tried running "Xorg -configure". For some reason "Xorg > -configure" threw an error: > xf86EnableIO: could not open /dev/io for extended IO. However, when I did run: > > ls -l /dev/io > > I got: > > crw------- root wheel 246, 14 /dev/io > <snip> If you are still getting this error, you should read init(8) manpage regarding kern.securelevel and decrease it, if it's the case. Yuri
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