Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:38:59 +0700 (NOVST) From: "Maxim M. Kazachek" <stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X not suid root in 4.6.1-RC2? Message-ID: <20020725103641.U18384-100000@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> In-Reply-To: <3D3F709E.6080404@cream.org>
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On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Andrew Boothman wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Apologies if this has been discussed before and I missed it or this is
>due to some stupidity on my part but I just did a fresh install of
>4.6.1-RC2 and told it to install X for the first time.
>
>Having installed X and configured it, when I tried to run X as a normal
>user it died telling me that :
>-- start paste --
>(WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Permission denied)
> linear framebuffer access unavailable
>
>Fatal server error:
>xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root
>-- end paste --
>
>Was this a mistake made when installing X?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Andrew.
Seems like you need to install x11/wrapper package
Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek
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