Free BSD 4.4 New INSTALL X-windows won't work

[al plant]

Brian Low wrote:
> 
> Aloha Al,
>   can you attach the Var/log you are looking at (or a segment)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
> ##############################


Hi Gurus,

Part of the issue is resolved. XFree86 4.* needs a special
installation. I was told of this by an Admin who had
run into it on Linux. I found the issue explained  in the
FreeBSD handbook on the website (5.4 XFree86 Configuration)
.

This fix runs xfce (the window manager I use on all our
boxes)
fine as root.

But I can't get the ordinary users on the box to run it
after running setup_xfce for the users.

The only errors> 
 
(WW) CheckDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (permission
denied) linear frame buffer access unavailable.

xf860penConsole: Server must be SUID to root


I need some help in figuring out this message please.

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On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:46:15AM -1000, al plant wrote:
> >
> > Looking for Guru help!
> >
> >



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> From: alp at pele.WURLDLINK.NET [mailto:alp at pele.WURLDLINK.NET]On Behalf Of
> al plant
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:43 AM
> To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
> Subject: [luau] Free BSD 4.4 New INSTALL X-windows won't work
> 
> Looking for Guru help!
> 
> We installed Free BSD 4.4 on a box that was working with
> Free BSD 4.3 and everything went ok, but the X-windows won't
> start. All the softwear components seem to be installed
> though.
> 
> The errors in the Var/log indicate that there may be a path
> issue.
> 
> Anybody who uses BSD 4.4 know how to set the path to check
> this?
> 
> Also  does anyone know of an issue between X-windows 3.**
> and 4.** I believe the 4.3 was using the X-windows 3.** and
> this 4.4 only installs 4.** apparently.
> 
> Any ideas or help appreciated.
> 

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