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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 2002 05:13:39 +0100
From:      Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
To:        "Maxim M. Kazachek" <stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru>
Cc:        Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X not suid root in 4.6.1-RC2?
Message-ID:  <3D3F7AF3.8030202@cream.org>
References:  <20020725103641.U18384-100000@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru>

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Maxim M. Kazachek wrote:

>On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Andrew Boothman wrote:
>
>>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 --
>>
>>    
>>
>Seems like you need to install x11/wrapper package
>

You are, of course, completely right. Thanks also to David Wolfskill for 
pointing this out.

When installing via sysinstall users don't get shown the message 
explaining that they need xwrapper if the want to use startx. Does 
anyone else think that they should either be told or we just add 
xwrapper as a depandancy of the XFree86 package?

Andrew.


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