From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 22 15:24:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.188.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CC7A37B401 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f9MMNx798868; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:23:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error on startx References: <0110211622141Z.96094@chip.wiegand.org> <20011022021724.S26647-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 22 Oct 2001 18:23:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: psyv@sec-it.net's message of "Mon, 22 Oct 2001 00:19:56 +0000 (UTC)" Message-ID: <448ze3fh4x.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 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 psyv@sec-it.net (The Psychotic Viper) writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Chip wrote: > > > fatal server error - > > XF86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted) > By any chance are you running kernel securelevels?Im guessing you are and > X wont run in any secure level > 0, you would need 'kern_securelevel="-1"' > in your /etc/rc.conf to run X.Change that and give it a go. Not quite right. X will run in any securelevel. It won't *start* in any securelevel that doesn't allow access to raw memory. See the FAQ entry on the topic: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#RUNNING-X-SECURELEVELS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message