From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 26 13: 8:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail47.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail47.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A4737B40C for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 13:08:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from europax@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail47.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010826200855.EQMI20210.femail47.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 13:08:55 -0700 Message-ID: <3B895745.E7708C02@home.com> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 13:08:37 -0700 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Denault Cc: Clarence Brown , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't start X Windows References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Don't forget to also install "wrapper" from the ports. Then you won't need SETUID server. Rob. Doug Denault wrote: > > Are you using kernel security? If you have > 'kern_securelevel_enable="YES"', remove that and try again. If > kern_securelevel=1, you can not write to /dev/io. I am not sure about '0'. > > On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Clarence Brown wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > I'm trying to start xwindows on FreeBSD 4.3 > > newly installed from CD. The machine is > > an HP NetServer with built in graphics using > > a Cirus GD5446 chip and 2 meg. > > > > I tried to follow the instructions in the > > handbook, but running XFree86 -configure > > produces the same error as below, it does not > > make a starting config file. > > > > I tried running xf86config to produce the > > config file, and that works but I still > > get the same error when trying to startx. > > I get the same errors when i select the > > card as Cirus 544x, or 5446 noname, or > > Generic VGA. > > > > (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted) > > linear framebuffer access unavailable > > and > > > > Fatal server error: > > xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O > > > > Here is the log: > > > [cut] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- The Numeric Python EM Project www.members.home.net/europax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message