From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 13:21:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C591C16A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:21:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7197643D3F for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:21:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd-questions@trini0.org) Received: from hivemind.trini0.org (trini0.org[65.34.205.195]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004111113212401200p7o1qe>; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:21:24 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.16] (gladiator.trini0.org [192.168.0.16]) by hivemind.trini0.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621ECD3; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:21:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41936758.6010001@trini0.org> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:21:28 -0500 From: Gerard Samuel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041015) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nelis Lamprecht References: <20041111041427.GA48575@keyslapper.org> <4192E923.40509@trini0.org> <7cbadc87041110231912ca41a8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7cbadc87041110231912ca41a8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd@keyslapper.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/io problem in 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:21:27 -0000 Nelis Lamprecht wrote: >On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:22:59 -0500, Gerard Samuel > wrote: > > >>Louis LeBlanc wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>>Just got through buildworld/kernel on 5.3. Strange problem I can't >>>find the solution to. >>> >>>Xorg won't start: >>> >>>Fatal server error: >>>xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O >>> >>>Please consult the The x.org Foundation support at http://wiki.X.org >>>for help. >>>Yada Yada Yada. >>> >>>Only one hit on Google, and it's just a bug report. Anyone else have >>>any ideas? I know /dev/is supposed to be more dynamic in 5.3, but >>>this isn't working. >>> >>> >>> >>Make sure your kernel has "device io". >>X needs it in 5.3. >> >> >> > >Out of curiosity does 5.3 have this in the Generic kernel ? I don't >have a copy installed yet to check but if it doesn't then it certainly >should IMO. I've seen this problem reported a few times already. > Yes its part of the 5.3 GENERIC kernel. Also (I ran into this with X also), you also need device mem if you dont already have it. -- device mem # Memory and kernel memory devices device io # I/O device