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

Steve Anderson andersons001 at hawaii.rr.com
Wed Jan 30 00:08:11 PST 2002


> (WW) CheckDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (permission
> denied) linear frame buffer access unavailable.
> 
> xf860penConsole: Server must be SUID to root
You may want to try this:

OpenBSD now requires the aperture driver to be enabled for all X
servers, because the aperturedriver also controls access to the I/O
ports of the video boards. To enable the aperture driver, once included
in the kernel, set

machdep.allowaperture=1

in /etc/sysctl.conf


Steve Anderson



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