From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 16 0: 2:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from windmill-en0.garlic.com (windmill-en0.garlic.com [208.195.160.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142F537B400 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 00:02:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from garlic.com (137.sm7.dialup.garlic.net [216.139.3.137]) by windmill-en0.garlic.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g1G82VP14938 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 00:02:31 -0800 Message-ID: <3C6E123F.4050609@garlic.com> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 00:03:11 -0800 From: Remington User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020213 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: XFree86 not working with normal users Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently tryed running Xfree as a normal use and it returned with: XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 2 June 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Fri Feb 15 23:49:40 2002 (==) Using config file: "/etc/XF86Config" Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout "XFree86 Configured" (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0" (**) | |-->Device "Card0" (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0" (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Sp eedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 ib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" (**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Permission denied) linear framebuffer access unavailable Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root What possible affects would there be to using chmod on /dev/mem(currently at crw-r----- 1 root kmem 2, 0 Feb 6 14:27 /dev/mem) and what is xfOpenConsole and what would i have to do to change the suid error? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message