Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:48:04 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: shahmeer@UVic.CA, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel Compile Errors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012151546110.92637-100000@mail.wlcg.com> In-Reply-To: <20001215123007.V19572@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Turn the kern_securelevel option in rc.conf to "NO", reboot, and install your kernel. You problems with not being able to run X are also related to having too high of a securelevel. There are workarounds for the problem with X, but I don't remember them off the top of my head. Robert Simmons Systems Administrator http://www.wlcg.com/ On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * shahmeer@UVic.CA <shahmeer@UVic.CA> [001215 12:27] wrote: > > I wanted to recompile my kernel so that I could enable ipnat, get my sound > > card working and optimize it somewhat for my system. I followed the instructions from the handbook > > and the first time I compiled the kernel, everything went smoothly from > > what i know. But then X windows suddenly stopped working. The startx > > script gave the error: > > (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted) > > linear framebuffer access unavailable > > Did you raise securelevel? > > -Alfred > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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