From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 1:47:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 857EC37B403 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 01:47:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id KAA23077; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:56:14 +0200 Message-ID: <3B31B516.6FED6572@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:49:26 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jasonla@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems starting X as a normal user References: <20010620235042.4992.qmail@web4604.mail.yahoo.com> 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 Jason La schrieb: > > I am running FreeBSD 4.3 Release, and I have successfully > finished setting up XFree86 4.0.3 as root. > > My problem is that while I try to start X as a normal user, > (startx), I get this error message: > > (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Permission > denied) > linear framebuffer access unavailable > > Fatal server error: > xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root > > Any help would be appreciated. Install the wrapper port (usr/ports/x11/wrapper) for XF86 4.x. Since 4.0, X has no SUID bit set, thus your problems. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message