Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 12:28:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Parker Brown <phbrown@gte.net> Cc: support@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cleaning up wierd system messages to root Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971104122812.29009C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <345EAD68.262@gte.net>
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On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Parker Brown wrote: > This could conceivably (that doesn't look right!) be an XFree86 > question, but I don't think so. > When I bring FreeBSD up, I usually login as root on console 1, then as a > regular user on console 2 (<alt><F2>) and use the system there without > worrying about a global wipeout. Also, just to monitor the efficiency > of the system, I usually run systat -vmstat as root. Anyway, after > using startx to use X-windows as a regular user, error messages > something like "/kernel: cmd XF86-SVGA --- tried to use non-present > SYSVSHM" show up on root's screen. That blow's systat's whole screen > (ok, no biggie) but I'm enough of a perfectionist to want to know what's > wrong. SYSVSHM refers to System V Shared Memory, I guess. I think this > only happens with my reconfigured kernel, and I know of nothing that > I've omitted there. You need to add options SYSVSHM to your kernel config & recompile. That will shut it up. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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