From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 18 21:23:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC93716A475 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:23:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dino_vliet@yahoo.com) Received: from web51109.mail.yahoo.com (web51109.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 842AB13C4B8 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:23:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dino_vliet@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 73900 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Feb 2007 21:23:54 -0000 Message-ID: <20070218212354.73898.qmail@web51109.mail.yahoo.com> DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=5fqqDaziwo5nkn0ONCetmdxT0RTmg40R1qHmtgbA/+T4HJ8pcOxeR7S3DsMX97vbytX6BLiy0OGjHefI/65zpVMvJxakQMYx8MWYIKUyRE4+UBGQZxx4r7OjmGoQSuOzDFVvXVY6sJfsMA9mNNCYKU5ZahXs2Fimsn1YkC8Q75A=; X-YMail-OSG: evcQc6kVM1lDa.iPDHktC3lNsa6YC6mF.pXRhpe9KLcZ1xs0BjU8FLk4pkqn_3VPqPboqjqShx0eWao_x50Yoz4LlLmn8_zlS_0Bg2S0ZIYEq4KJk14Fz.OTfCnOi70Nu054dBdrLxUBhS_rRXqi8eSv Received: from [82.170.181.144] by web51109.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:23:54 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/368.8 YahooMailWebService/0.6.132.8 Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:23:54 -0800 (PST) From: Dino Vliet To: Christian Walther MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X won start anymore X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:23:57 -0000 I am running a securelevel (3 in my case) but have been doing it since mont= hs...=0AWhat's really odd, is that after I dual booted Ubuntu just now, and= restarting and opting for freebsd I first got this rare message about the = kernel that couldn't be booted. Then I did a ctrl-alt-del and restarted and= opted for freebsd again and voila.....I could get back into X!!!=0AI don't= know what was happening, I am suspecting maybe bad hardware and started ba= cking things up.=0A=0AThanks in advanced though, I am working with GDM righ= t now and I just don't know what happened!!=0A=0A=0A----- Original Message = ----=0AFrom: Christian Walther =0ATo: Dino Vliet =0ACc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=0ASent: Sunday, Februa= ry 18, 2007 1:56:48 PM=0ASubject: Re: X won start anymore=0A=0AOn 18/02/07,= Dino Vliet wrote:=0A[...]=0A> (WW) xf86EnableIO: Fa= iled to open /dev/io for extended I/O(EE) No devices detected.=0A>=0A> Fata= l server error:=0A> no screens found=0A[...]=0A=0AYou're sure you didn't se= t securelevel to something > 0?=0AX can't work without having access to /de= v/io, so having a kernel in=0Asecure mode and X running isn't possible.=0A= =0A=0A=0A=0A=0A =0A________________________________________________________= ____________________________=0ANo need to miss a message. Get email on-the-= go =0Awith Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started.=0Ahttp://mobile.yahoo.com/m= ail