From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 23 22:22:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (smtp-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0CD237B405 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:22:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF95630F; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:22:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:22:20 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-X-Sender: To: Jon Cc: Subject: Re: XFree86 error In-Reply-To: <20010624042355.21811.qmail@web5105.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Jon wrote: :when attempting to 'startx' i get the following error: : :xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not :permitted) : : :anyone have a clue as to what this might mean?? : It means you're running XFree 4.x as a non-root users, though it would be nice to mention things like that, as mind-reading is an imprecise science. It that be the case, either you should configure xdm(1) or an equivelant, or install the ports/x11/wrapper port. Regards, David Scheidt -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message